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
special advertising realizing
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
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What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.
cities beverly-hills los-angeles
Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
broken-heart falling-in-love love-you
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. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.
writing opposites long
I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.
sound catchy charming
Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
new-york cities people
New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.
children party interesting
Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.
hate two boring
I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.
party admire
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.
moving restaurants assurance
Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves.
eggs sandwiches four
Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs.
interest areas
No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
artist cities television
Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.