Fran Lebowitz Quotes

• The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

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• The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

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• The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

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• Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.

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• Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

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• Polite conversation is rarely either.

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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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• Nothing succeeds like address.

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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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• Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

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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 favorite animal is steak.

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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. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

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• In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

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• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

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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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Fran Lebowitz (69)

Birth:	27th October, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Author, Speaker

About

Fran Lebowitz was born in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. She is an American author, actress, and public speaker. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker. She has written several books include: Metropolitan Life, Social Studies, The Fran Lebowitz Reader, and Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas. Her role in several films including Public Speaking, Beautiful Darling, and Resident Alien.

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