If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them. — 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
Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater? — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans — 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
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
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
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to… — 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
Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
People who get married because they're in love make a ridiculous mistake. It makes much more sense to marry your best friend.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others… People who have good… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
What's so great thing about clothes is that they're artificial - you can lie, you can choose the way you look, which… — 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
In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I… — 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
Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you… — 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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