Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitzis an American author and public speaker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth27 October 1950
CityMorristown, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
friendship jail affair
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
friends kindness thinking
It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.
food dinner-guests hot
Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.
country helping kind
I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
food cake white
White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.
food wine law
Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
effort bigs given
I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.
paris matter remember
remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.
wanted extra-work extras
I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
two want kind
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.
vegetables people special
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.
style chance genuine
Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.
style use language
those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.
laziness persons
I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.