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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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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.
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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
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If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
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New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.
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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
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It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
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I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
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