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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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You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
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I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
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Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
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When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.
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A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.
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Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.
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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.
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In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.
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Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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