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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
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I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
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