Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel. Fran Lebowitz More Quotes by Fran Lebowitz More Quotes From Fran Lebowitz I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. What are those computer letters made of anyway? Light? Too insubstantial. Paper, you can feel it. A pen. There's a connection. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming "uh-huh, yes? Fran Lebowitz light real writing A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa. Fran Lebowitz perfect museums firsts ...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey. Fran Lebowitz war book school When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life. Fran Lebowitz crash circles modern-life It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed. Fran Lebowitz unhappy jobs people Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens. Fran Lebowitz disappointment education children In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am. Fran Lebowitz new-york believe people Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. Fran Lebowitz advertising realizing special When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling. Fran Lebowitz certain age people Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing. Fran Lebowitz robbing writing feels Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner. Fran Lebowitz dinner tables people All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion. Fran Lebowitz style fashion I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings. Fran Lebowitz new-york exercise way To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire. Fran Lebowitz taken mean book I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties. Fran Lebowitz party running Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Fran Lebowitz adults smoking fun Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs. Fran Lebowitz speaks-french children people Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt. Fran Lebowitz cutting real children Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop. Fran Lebowitz romance lifetime smoking I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work. Fran Lebowitz hate jobs children
