Fran Lebowitz citáty
Fran Lebowitz
Dátum narodenia: 27. október 1950
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Fran Lebowitz - americká spisovateľka.
Citáty Fran Lebowitz
„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
"Parental Guidance".
„I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?“
— Fran Lebowitz
"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 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.“
— Fran Lebowitz
Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).
„Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.“
— Fran Lebowitz
"No News is Preferable" ([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 p. 221])
Originally published in [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 "The Lebowitz Report"] column in Mademoiselle (1975)
„Take away a man’s actual sense of manhood — which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children — and you’ve got to give them something else. And they did.This hideous religion that’s all over the country — these huge church-malls — that’s what substitutes for these lost towns. But that’s not a town. That’s a cult. A town is diverse, in a real way, not in this fake way we have now. A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That’s just self-righteousness — incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic. People have become so rigid; their opinions seem to them like themselves. When that happens (and it has happened) people can’t change their minds. If you are identified by your opinions — if that is the very basis of yourself — how can you change your mind?“
— Fran Lebowitz
Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).
„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
"Why I Love Sleep" (p. 91).
„Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.“
— Fran Lebowitz
"Food for Thought and Vice Versa" (p. 109).
