Quote by Fran Lebowitz
I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my i

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 Lebowitz

Other quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. – Fran Lebowitz

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great
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When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury. – Fran Lebowitz

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Sports
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. – Fran Lebowitz

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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience. – Immanuel Kant

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Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. – Virginia Woolf

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I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the Today programme and item four on the news was: The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership. I lay there thinking thats interesting, then I realised it was me. – George Osborne

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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist. – Erwin Schrodinger

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It is not good to have an oar in everyones boat. – Earl Camden

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I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from. – Amy Tan

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry Adams

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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. – William Shakespeare

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