"Social Studies"

[fiefoe]

Fran Lebowitz was only in her 'absolute latest possible twenties' by her own admission, but she was already a seasoned curmudgeon. (One has much to catch up.)

• Risk being impolite.
• Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home.
  
• a manner that suggests an unhappy penchant for undue fanfare
• (Spring,) the word "relationship" is in the air, although fortunately not in the water.
• As far as I can tell, the poor get all the love and affection they can possibly handle. The concept of an unsuitable marriage obviously started somewhere.
  
• Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.
  
• Polite conversation is rarely either.
• The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
  
• A child with his own savings account and/or tax shelter is not going to be a child who scares easy.
• all three of my material goals: new money, old furniture and a separate room to write in
• (Discouraging keeping pets:)... there would still be the blind and the pathologically lonely to think of... I believe that I have hit upon the perfect solution to this problem: let the lonely lead the blind.
  I suggest that you... consider investing in a really good entourage. ... You do not have to name an entourage.