Fran Lebowitz Quotes - Page 7

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• Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, Trying

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Nov 09, 2015

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• there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Two, Want, Kind

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.148, Vintage

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• Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Morning, Food, Snacks

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• If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, People, Junk

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

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• To me, the main difference between young people now and the people I was young with isn't so much style, it's the relationships they have with their parents. Their parents like them much more than ours liked us. Our parents weren't our friends. But now I see my friends on the phones with their, what, 30 - year - old kids? And they're talking about feelings.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Kids, People, Parent

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Taken, Class

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• The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Artist, People, Interesting

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

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• I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Directors, Admission

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

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• Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Television, Said, Pedantic

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• Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Eggs, Twenties, Room Service

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.287, Vintage

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• [Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Animal, Talking

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• Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Real, Phones, Japan

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• By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Bored

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• I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Girl, Rich, Waitress

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

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• If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Love, Years, Two

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• Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sleep, People, Demand

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.71, Vintage

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• [On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mother, Reading, Important

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• I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cute, Smart, Mean

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• A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Vegetables, People, Special

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.276, Vintage

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• I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, Children, Hate

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• Favorite animal: steak.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Animal, Steak

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• Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Like You, Natural

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

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• Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fun, Party, Science

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.96, Vintage

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• Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Wine, Law

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.128, Vintage

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• Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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