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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
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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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When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.
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I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
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I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
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Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.
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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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Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.
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It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
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Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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A salad is not a meal, it is a style.
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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
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