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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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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.
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We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.
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What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
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I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
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Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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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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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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No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
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Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.
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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
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People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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