TOP 20 Fran Lebowitz Quotes

TOP 20 Fran Lebowitz Quotes.

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
— Fran Lebowitz (00:00)

“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.”
— Fran Lebowitz (00:07)

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.”
— Fran Lebowitz (00:14)

“You’re only as good as your last haircut.”
— Fran Lebowitz (00:21)

“Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.”
— Fran Lebowitz (00:28)

“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 (00:35)

“When Toni Morrison said ‘write the book you want to read,’ she didn’t mean everybody.”
— Fran Lebowitz (00:42)

“Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.”
— Fran Lebowitz (00:49)

“The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
— Fran Lebowitz (00:56)

“If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you’ve imagined. Venice is – Venice is better.”
— Fran Lebowitz (01:03)

“If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something.”
— Fran Lebowitz (01:10)

“The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.”
— Fran Lebowitz (01:17)

“Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.”
— Fran Lebowitz (01:24)

“Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn’t make up yourself – a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.”
— Fran Lebowitz (01:31)

“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 (01:38)

“I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.”
— Fran Lebowitz (01:45)

“My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.”
— Fran Lebowitz (01:52)

“Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.”
— Fran Lebowitz (01:59)

“I’m a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I’m great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.”
— Fran Lebowitz (02:06)

“There’s too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.”
— Fran Lebowitz (02:13)

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