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Fran Lebowitz

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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.


— Fran Lebowitz


#humor

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


— Fran Lebowitz


#humour #funny

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.


— Fran Lebowitz


#pets

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.


— Fran Lebowitz


#beautiful #children #fact #god #in fact

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.


— Fran Lebowitz


#been #child #company #experience #i

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.


— Fran Lebowitz


#actions speak #contemplation #evidence #forget #louder

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.


— Fran Lebowitz


#buying #child #dinner #only #wants

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.


— Fran Lebowitz


#embarrassment #society #united-states #world #united-states

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


— Fran Lebowitz


#clean #enough #how #leave #new

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.


— Fran Lebowitz


#humor






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In September 2007 Fran Lebowitz was named one of the year's most stylish women in Vanity Fair's 68th Annual International Best-Dressed List and Fran Lebowitz is known to sport tailored suits by the Savile Row tailor Anderson & Sheppard. [citation needed]
She has been famous in part for Exterior Signs of Wealth a long-overdue unfiniFran Lebowitzd novel purportedly about rich people who want to be artists and artists who want to be rich. [citation needed]


Life and career
Lebowitz was born and raised in Morristown New Jersey in an "observant" Jewish family.

Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz (born October 27 1950) is an American author. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York sensibilities.

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