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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.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.
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I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.
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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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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.
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Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
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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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I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.
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I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
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New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.
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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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I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
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I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
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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 never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
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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 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 love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
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