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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.
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You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
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I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
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Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
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If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.
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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 have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.
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No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.
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When I was young, boys didn't type.
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The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
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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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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
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