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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: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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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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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
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