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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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The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people are trying to live. Unless they own a hotel chain, I don't think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this.
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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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I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.
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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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No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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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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Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
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What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?
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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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Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
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Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.
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