Fran Lebowitz, 1975 by Peter Hujar
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If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you’ve imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.
-– Fran Lebowitz
(Canaletto, Venice)
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“You know, Jews, when they drop a prayer book are supposed to kiss it. This is what they teach you when you’re very little. It seemed entirely reasonable to me that you would do that. When I was a child I would kiss any book I dropped. When I was a very little child, after I’d read a book I really liked, I’d kiss it. Love is really the word. I think Children’s books are a human emotional experience rather than an intellectual one. You have a human relationship with them. Children have emotional relationships with inanimate objects, which it would be wise to carry on into adulthood. The way a child makes a person out of a doll, which I never did, I made people out of books.”
—Fran Lebowitz to Adam Thometz.
[Follies Of God]
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4:15 pm — I get up feeling curiously unrefreshed.
Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life
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Grouchy Simplicity
Fran Lebowitz by Caterine Milinaire
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Happy 73rd, Fran Lebowitz.
With Martin Scorsese. Photo by Brigitte Lacombe.
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This one got a laugh out of her. "Well. I dont think she'll mind. Since she's dead."
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