Fran Lebowitz Quotes

• War is, undoubtedly, hell, but there is no earthly reason why it has to start so early in the morning.

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• Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.

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• If you’re going to America, bring your own food.

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• There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter.

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• Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

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• Salad is not a meal. It is a style.

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• It is by this painstaking method of careful examination and eventual rejection that we reach a conclusion: life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

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• Sleep is death without the responsibility.

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• There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behaviour.

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• I prefer dead writers because you don’t run into them at parties.

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• Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.

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• The best fame is a writer’s fame. It’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

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• Think before you speak. Read before you think.

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• Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

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• Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.

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• You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

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• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

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• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

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• To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

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• There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

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Fran Lebowitz (69)

Birth:	27th October, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Author, Speaker

About

Fran Lebowitz was born in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. She is an American author, actress, and public speaker. She 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. She has written several books include: Metropolitan Life, Social Studies, The Fran Lebowitz Reader, and Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas. Her role in several films including Public Speaking, Beautiful Darling, and Resident Alien.

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