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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
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.
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The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
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I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.
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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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No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.
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I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
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The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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I've never seen the Kardashians I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.
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I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.
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It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.
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