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
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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.
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My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.
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Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.
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For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
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You're only as good as your last haircut.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.