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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Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in moods, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement mixer long after one's interest in the topic has waned
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Having been unpopular in high school is not a just cause for book publication
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. . .to me the outdoors is what you have to pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This analogy is meant to suggest that each is unique - no two alike. This is quite patently not the case. People, even at the current rate of inflation - in fact, people especially at the current rate of inflation - are quite simply a dime a dozen. And, I hasten to add, their only similarity to snowflakes resides in their invariably and lamentable tendency to turn, after a few warm days, to slush.
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I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.
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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.