To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire. — 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
I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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… — 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
I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I used to buy all my shirts at Brooks Brothers, but that was completely ruined about 20 years ago. They discontinued the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in… — 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
Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut?? — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York -… — 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
The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're… — 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 Image
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
[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 Image
Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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