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 To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald. Fran Lebowitz real It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others. Fran Lebowitz dignity jobs Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching. Fran Lebowitz rain relationship children When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. Fran Lebowitz tree book people When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting. Fran Lebowitz rocks stars kids Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God. Fran Lebowitz growing-up book children 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. Fran Lebowitz love relationship fall I've never had the experience of being edited and never will. Fran Lebowitz edited Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable. Fran Lebowitz motivational inspirational life My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna. Fran Lebowitz library dream writing Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time. Fran Lebowitz six writing thinking Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking. Fran Lebowitz quit-smoking quitting smoking I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor. Fran Lebowitz sober ill years When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references. I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative. Fran Lebowitz clue fashion thinking The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now. Fran Lebowitz wanting-to-die reason wish I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive. Fran Lebowitz real wish People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything. Fran Lebowitz style care people I used to buy all my shirts at Brooks Brothers, but that was completely ruined about 20 years ago. They discontinued the shirt I liked. If I had only known this - I mean, if you're going to discontinue an item that thousands and thousands of people buy, announce it. Say, 'We will no longer be making our excellent Brooks Brothers cotton shirts that we made for 5,000 years. We're going to change them in some awful way. We're alerting you so you can buy a lifetime supply.' Shirts don't go bad, they're not peaches. Fran Lebowitz brother mean people Maybe it's superficial to exude a sense of confidence in one's clothes. But it's also integral. We have an appearance. Not all of us are beautiful. But we can appear fine looking. So we should. Feeling good about an outfit is the point at which that outfit finally becomes good. Fran Lebowitz feel-good feelings beautiful A person who actually knows how to wear clothes...they would look good in any clothes. You see this especially at the Academy Awards. Even if the dresses are beautiful and expensive and important, the actresses can't always carry them. Sometimes I feel like saying to them, "Act! You know how to act, you're an actor. You're about to win an award for, I don't know, convincingly playing that Venezuelan nun who went to war. Now act like you can wear this dress.". Fran Lebowitz winning beautiful war
