"Words Are Easy, Books Are Not," interview with Bob Morris, The New York Times (1994-08-10), Late Edition, Section C, page 1, column 1.
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“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”
Fran Lebowitz
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Social Studies
"Parental Guidance".
Social Studies (1981)
Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).
“Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.”
Fran Lebowitz
livre
Social Studies
"Parental Guidance".
Social Studies (1981)
“Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.”
Fran Lebowitz
livre
Metropolitan Life
"Letters" (p. 143).
Metropolitan Life (1978)
Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).
“Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.”
Fran Lebowitz
livre
Metropolitan Life
"Food for Thought and Vice Versa" (p. 109).
Metropolitan Life (1978)
Fran Lebowitz
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Metropolitan Life
"No News is Preferable" ( p. 221 http://books.google.com/books?id=wKnCCIk9O0wC&q=%22Radio+news+is+bearable+This+is+due+to+the+fact+that+while+the+news+is+being+broadcast+the+disc+jockey+is+not+allowed+to+talk%22&pg=PA221#v=onepage)
Originally published in "The Lebowitz Report" http://books.google.com/books?id=k_MxAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Radio+news+is+bearable+This+is+due+to+the+fact+that+while+the+news+is+being+broadcast+the+disc+jockey+is+not+allowed+to+talk%22&pg=PA209#v=onepage column in Mademoiselle (1975)
Metropolitan Life (1978)
“If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.”
Fran Lebowitz
livre
Metropolitan Life
"Letters" (p. 143).
Metropolitan Life (1978)
“I don't believe in anything you have to believe in.”
Reported by Steve Pinker, " I am Steve Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard. Ask me anything. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1a67x4/i_am_steve_pinker_a_cognitive_psychologist_at/c8uiccn", Reddit.com (March 12, 2013).
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Index Magazine interview http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/fran_lebowitz.shtml with David Savage (1997).
“Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.”
Fran Lebowitz
livre
Social Studies
" Parental Guidance https://books.google.com/books?id=xCV8OXwBuNcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22fran+lebowitz%22+%22parental+guidance%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX3rO2xPvPAhXl1IMKHbrqAqAQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=%22Parental%20Guidance%20s%22&f=false".
Social Studies (1981)
“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
Fran Lebowitz
livre
Social Studies
"People".
Social Studies (1981)
Reported in Ginai Bellafante, " Opinions You Won’t Find on Twitter: Fran Lebowitz Talks http://tv.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/arts/television/22lebowitz.html?pagewanted=2, The New York Times (November 21, 2010).
Other
“Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.”
Fran Lebowitz
livre
Metropolitan Life
"Mars: Living in a Small Way" (p. 101).
Metropolitan Life (1978)
“Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.”
Fran Lebowitz
livre
Metropolitan Life
"Digital Clocks and Pocket Calculators: Spoilers of Youth" (p. 84).
Metropolitan Life (1978)
Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).
“I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.”
Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).
