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Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.
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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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No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.
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For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
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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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I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
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To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.
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Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
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I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
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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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There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.
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London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
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I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
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I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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