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I walked into my support group meeting a few weeks ago, and I had bicycle gear on. They were just beaming at me. It was just cool.


Fran Wallis

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FRAN LEBOWITZ The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he f...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointme...
FRAN LEBOWITZ The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completel...
FRAN KRANZ I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonde...
FRAN LEBOWITZ My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airpo...
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic natur...
FRAN LEBOWITZ As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone i...
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
FRAN DRESCHER When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enou...
FRAN LEBOWITZ In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simp...
FRAN LEBOWITZ People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and y...
FRAN DRESCHER Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are ne...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr...
FRAN LEBOWITZ The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the '...
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