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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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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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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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
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When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.
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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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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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If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.
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I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
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I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
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Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.
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I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
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