New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone. Fran Lebowitz More Quotes by Fran Lebowitz More Quotes From Fran Lebowitz 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 Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough. Fran Lebowitz names long children If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful. Fran Lebowitz taken writing jobs Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Fran Lebowitz maturity adults smoking Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. Fran Lebowitz cooking food funny Frenchman: Germans with good food. Fran Lebowitz frenchmen good-food Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. Fran Lebowitz cheer made art I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere. Fran Lebowitz cashmere i-believe believe I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing. Fran Lebowitz matter writing thinking The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes. Fran Lebowitz minutes used want I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up. Fran Lebowitz laziness persons If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down. Fran Lebowitz fate car writing I just write when fear overtakes me. Fran Lebowitz writing Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing. Fran Lebowitz profession writing mean I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in the young than I do. I am not interested in what young people are thinking. They're thinking less than old people, of course. I mean, what could they be thinking? And what are they doing? They're doing the same stupid things you did. Fran Lebowitz stupid mean thinking Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people. Fran Lebowitz communist people looks Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here. Fran Lebowitz cities new-york ideas Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke. Fran Lebowitz doe long children It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars. Fran Lebowitz flying smoking baby There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world. Fran Lebowitz writing talking thinking
