"All God's children are not beautiful."

[Smarmie Doofus]

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz

[cali]

1. why are you posting this bit of idiocy?

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. It's amusing. Pithy. Wry.

Speaks to a tendency we have to sentimentalize. Distort reality.

Why... I ask you.... should I not ?

[Taverner]

11. Because deep in your heart, you know it is true

[Union Scribe]

2. Meh, bitter quipsters don't impress me.

It isn't hard to sneer at the world professionally, judging by how many people do it.

[Le Taz Hot]

4. Huge Fran Lebowitz

fan here. One of the smartest women I've ever listened to. Right up there with the late Adela Rogers St. Johns.

Anyway, I thought it was funny.

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. +1. n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. I was originally looking for this:

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Fran Lebowitz


But "barely presentable" insisted that it be shared.

[HiPointDem]

7. I actually think all children *are* beautiful -- it's when they grow up that things get dicey.

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. You remind me of.....

this:


In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. - Anton Chekhov



There's truth to that, also.

[HiPointDem]

9. :>)

[Taverner]

10. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." --Serge Gainsbourg