I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
FRAN LEBOWITZI’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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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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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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