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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
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Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.
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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
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Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.
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Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
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I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.
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A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A community is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
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There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
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