Fran Lebowitz Quotes - Page 15

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• There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

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• Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Cities, Ideas

  "Fran Lebowitz to Tourists: 'Stay Home'" by David Hershkovits, www.papermag.com. September 17, 2014.

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• No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

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  Children, President, England

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

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  Maturity, Smoking, Adults

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• You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.

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  Eggs, Criticism, Taste

  "Pauline Kael Slams Anti-Feminist Critics in Glorious Vintage Radio Broadcast" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. November 24, 2015.

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• A person who actually knows how to wear clothes...they would look good in any clothes. You see this especially at the Academy Awards. Even if the dresses are beautiful and expensive and important, the actresses can't always carry them. Sometimes I feel like saying to them, "Act! You know how to act, you're an actor. You're about to win an award for, I don't know, convincingly playing that Venezuelan nun who went to war. Now act like you can wear this dress.".

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  Beautiful, War, Winning

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

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  Doctors, Self, People

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

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  Children, Political Opinions, Knows

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.220, Vintage

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• Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.

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  Children, Needs, Pay

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.217, Vintage

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• To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

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  Book, Taken, Mean

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• The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

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  Talking, Literature, Attractive

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.199, Vintage

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• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

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  Book, Writing, School

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Sep 17, 2011

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• modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

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  Science, Answers, Problem

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.95, Vintage

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• I just write when fear overtakes me.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing

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• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

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  Funny Love, Best Love, Romantic Love

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• [On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

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  Party, Admire

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• [On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.

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  Work Out, Mind, Parenthood

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• All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

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  Television, Statements

  "Stuff To Read: Fran Lebowitz Interview In Ruminator Magazine". Interview with Susannah McNeely, vdovault.wordpress.com. June 10, 2006.

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• The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes.

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  Want, Used, Minutes

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life/Social Studies”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!

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  New York, Home, Tourists

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview With Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

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  Government, Interesting, Democracy

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.188, Vintage

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• I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

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  Women, Being In Love, Love Is

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• I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."

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  New York, Cities, Immigration

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.

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  People, Guests, Sides

  Source: mrbellersneighborhood.com

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• I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.

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  Thinking, Years, Three

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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