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.
FRAN LEBOWITZI never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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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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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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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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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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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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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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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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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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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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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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