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
mother responsibility parent
Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.
hurt sleep responsibility
I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.
friends responsibility thinking
for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.
sleep responsibility
Sleep is death without the responsibility.
apartment order outdoors pass
. . .to me the outdoors is what you have to pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
allow children mix
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
chance figure whether
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
hear last life phone stage teenager
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
assure conscious firm life refusal remain
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
book cause high school unpopular
Having been unpopular in high school is not a just cause for book publication
cement children color discussing interest mixer persist recently subtle topic
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in moods, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement mixer long after one's interest in the topic has waned
book parties worse
I often used to say, the more parties there were for a book, the worse the book was.
racism racist environment
Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.
writing thinking opposites
Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"