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" Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. "
Fran Lebowitz
Purpose
Vegetables
Good
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. "
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" Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. "
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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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