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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything.
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Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.
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I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
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When I was young, boys didn't type.
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Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
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A salad is not a meal, it is a style.
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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
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I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
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I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.
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Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.
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I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
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