Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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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Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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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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I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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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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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child’, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
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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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I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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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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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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