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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: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
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I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.
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I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
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I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
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Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
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It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A community is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.
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There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.
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Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
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What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
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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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Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.
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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
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I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
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I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
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Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
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Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
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