I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Even if people aren't Republicans, it doesn't seem shocking to them that Ronald Reagan was the president. Well of course, because Arnold… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I am not personally a parent. But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third. I am naturally concerned for… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
People are constantly telling me, whether they are friends who feel sorry for me, because I can't find a place to live,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder? — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
“lack, or loutish and crass kollective is a program dedicated to the proposition that vulgarity and bad taste are an inalienable right. the lackies,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
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… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
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