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.
FRAN LEBOWITZOriginal thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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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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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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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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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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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
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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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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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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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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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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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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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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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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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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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