From a New York Magazine conversation with Fran Lebowitz. Here she talks about her friendship with Toni Morrison:
“She’s one of my best friends, and she is the only wise person I’ve ever known. I know lots of very smart people, but I only know one wise person,” she said. She and Toni talk on the phone every day. “She’s very important to me because there are very few people’s advice I’m interested in,” Fran said. “I’ve not always taken Toni’s advice, but I’m always interested. Toni is so unlike me. When I was young, my mother used to say, ‘Can’t you be the bigger person?’ And I would say no. I am by nature the smaller person, but the bigger person is Toni.”
“Toni’s
the biggest person I’ve ever known, by far. She has the greatest
generosity of anyone I’ve ever known. So it’s not only her intelligence,
which is extreme… I truthfully know other people as smart as Toni, but I
do not know anyone who is so large in generosity. And her talent is
fantastic, but I know other very talented people. She is unique. I feel
like I’ve met a zillion people, so I don’t think she’s unique in my life
— she is unique on the planet.”
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