Fran Lebowitz Quotes - Page 15

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• Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.

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  New York, Cities, Progress

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Sep 07, 2011

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• We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smart, Opportunity, Dumb

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

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  Typewriters, Machines

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

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• I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

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  Morning, Writing, Midnight

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

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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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  Writing, Columns, Reviews

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

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• When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.

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  Book, People, Tree

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• Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.

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  Children, Needs, Pay

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.217, Vintage

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• I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.

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  Writing, Thinking, Matter

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

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• Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.

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  People, Guests, Sides

  Source: mrbellersneighborhood.com

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• There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

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  Writing, Mines

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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.

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  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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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.

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  Thinking, Choices, Internet

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

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  Funny Love, Best Love, Romantic Love

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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.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Clue

  Source: www.elle.com

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

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  Real, Wish

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.

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  Writing, Mean, Profession

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

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  New York, Cities, People

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• A person who actually knows how to wear clothes...they would look good in any clothes. You see this especially at the Academy Awards. Even if the dresses are beautiful and expensive and important, the actresses can't always carry them. Sometimes I feel like saying to them, "Act! You know how to act, you're an actor. You're about to win an award for, I don't know, convincingly playing that Venezuelan nun who went to war. Now act like you can wear this dress.".

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  Beautiful, War, Winning

  Source: www.elle.com

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• London: A place you go to get bronchitis.

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  Cities, Places You Go, London

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• I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.

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  Hurt, Writing, Blood

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• I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

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  Writing, Different, Looks

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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?

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  New York, Car, Drug

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

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• I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

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  Hate, Lazy, I Hate

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

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• Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

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  Two, People, Boss

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

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• There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.

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  Jobs, Zero, Mean

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

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