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" All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. "
Fran Lebowitz
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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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" Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully. "
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" The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. "
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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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" Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. "
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