Fran Lebowitz Quotes - Page 16

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• New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Tourists, Wave

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

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• The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Jersey, Great Things

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

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• Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Speaks French, People

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• Because of the Internet everybody sees the same stuff. You can buy the clothes of New York, even if you're not living there. So I think that the accessibility, in this case, drives buying choices more than anything else.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Thinking, Choices, Internet

  Source: www.elle.com

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• New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Cities, People

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• When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references. I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fashion, Thinking, Clue

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Real, Wish

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Addiction, Rest Of Your Life, Things You Love

  Interview with Phong Bui, brooklynrail.org. March 4, 2014.

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• Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Teenager, Believe, Blessed

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.224, Vintage

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• London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cities, Places You Go, London

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• Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hair, Long, People

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

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• What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Car, Drug

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

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• What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Upset, Domestic Life

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

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