Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
FRAN LEBOWITZIn real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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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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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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Nothing succeeds like address.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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