The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
FRAN LEBOWITZThe conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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