Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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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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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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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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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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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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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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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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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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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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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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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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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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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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