„Piensa antes de hablar, lee antes de pensar.“
— Fran Lebowitz, libro Social Studies
Social Studies, Random House, 1981.
Frases de Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Fecha de nacimiento: 27. Octubre 1950
Otros nombres: Frank Lebowitz
Frances Ann «Fran» Lebowitz es una escritora estadounidense, conocida por sus agudos comentarios sociales acerca de la vida cotidiana estadounidense vista a través de una sensibilidad neoyorquina. Algunos críticos literarios la consideran una Dorothy Parker moderna.[1]
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Frases Fran Lebowitz
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„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).
„Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.“
— Fran Lebowitz, libro 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)
„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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„Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.“
— Fran Lebowitz, libro Social Studies
"Parental Guidance".
Social Studies (1981)
„The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies — easily checkable, blatant lies — and I’m not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men — 15 of them are Saudis — and five minutes later the whole country thinks they’re from Iraq — how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O. J. Simpson jurors.“
Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).
„Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.“
— Fran Lebowitz, libro Social Studies
"Tips for Teens".
Social Studies (1981)
„Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.“
— Fran Lebowitz, libro Social Studies
"Parental Guidance".
Social Studies (1981)
„I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?“
"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.
„The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.“
— Fran Lebowitz, libro Social Studies
"People".
Social Studies (1981)
„No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.“
— Fran Lebowitz, libro Social Studies
"Pointers for Pets".
Social Studies (1981)
„I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.“
— Fran Lebowitz, libro Metropolitan Life
"Why I Love Sleep" (p. 91).
Metropolitan Life (1978)
„There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn don't go together. Because advice makes love sound like some sort of cognitive activity, but we know that it isn't. We all know that it's some sort of horrible chemical reaction over which we have absolutely no control. And that's why advice doesn't work.“
Index Magazine interview http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/fran_lebowitz.shtml with David Savage (1997).
„Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.“
— Fran Lebowitz, libro Metropolitan Life
"Letters" (p. 144).
Metropolitan Life (1978)
„Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.“
Ruminator Magazine interview http://www.ruminator.com/?p=82 with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).
„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, libro Social Studies
"Tips for Teens".
Social Studies (1981)
„Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.“
— Fran Lebowitz, libro Metropolitan Life
"A World View" (p. 64).
Metropolitan Life (1978)
