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

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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.

Clue, Fashion, Revival, Thinking, Year

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Heart, High, House, People, Politeness

Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.

Blame, Certain, Fault, Faults, Trump

I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

Being In Love, Compares, Disruptive, Love Is, Though, Women

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

Book, Expensive, People, Say

Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.

Adore, People, Stabbing, Train

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

Carrots, Easter, Food, Funny, Large, Raw

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.

Back, Come, Keep, Reason, Wanting To Die, Wish

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

Distinguishes, Fashion, Personal, Style

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.

Child, Children, Hate, Jobs, Simply

I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

Finish, Midnight, Morning, Start, Writing

I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.

Empress, Empresses, Interested, Wife, Women

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

Close, Great Things, Jersey, New York, York

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

Average, Cuisine, Food, Japan, Substantial, Supplement

To me, the main difference between young people now and the people I was young with isn't so much style, it's the relationships they have with their parents. Their parents like them much more than ours liked us. Our parents weren't our friends. But now I see my friends on the phones with their, what, 30 - year - old kids? And they're talking about feelings.

Feelings, Kids, Like, Parent, People

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

Longer, Opposite, Opposites, Romance, Want, Young

Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.

Color, Flower, Flowers, Hair, Inspirational, Teenage

When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested. ' There's not ever any other answer.

Calling, Dating, Interested, Think, Thinking

I've always been old at heart.

Heart, Old

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Book, Inspirational, Read, Speak, Think, Wisdom

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