Fran Lebowitz Quotes
I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
Lebowitz, Fran. Pretend It's a City. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Netflix, 2021.
This remarkable observation turned out to be true even to this day where study after study demonstrates that the average teenager believes that drug use is much more prevalent that it really is.
With this type of rhetoric (see Quotation 643709) for another example), he gave the green light to local law enforcement agencies and vigilante groups, who in the first few weeks of his term of office, murdered without trial or any due process 1500 assumed drug dealers and drug users. In some cases feuds and scores were settled by the false accusation of a rival or enemy, and since there was no trial or way for the accused to even try and prove he was not a drug addict of dealer, a number of totally innocent people were victims of extra judicial killings encouraged by the President of the Country.
Frances Ann Lebowitz is an American author, public speaker, and occasional actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. The New York Times has called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker.
