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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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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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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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I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.
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