Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
FRAN LEBOWITZDo 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.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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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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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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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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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 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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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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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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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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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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