Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
FRAN LEBOWITZNo animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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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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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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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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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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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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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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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 opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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