Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.
Plimpton, George, and James Linville. "Fran Lebowitz, The Art of Humor No. 1." The Paris Review, no. 127, Summer 1993.
When asked to campaign for his arch-rival James G. Blaine for the presidency: Conkling was the most important Republican in New York State. His Presidential ambitions had been thwarted and he left government to return to his New York law practice. When Blaine became the Republican Presidential candidate, New York Republicans wanted Conkling’s OK to campaign actively for Blaine. Conkling refused. New York State went for the Democrats and Blaine lost the election by a smaller margin than New York’s electoral votes. There are some historians who question whether the quotation is an accurate one or merely apocryphal.
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.
