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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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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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I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
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I've never seen the Kardashians I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.
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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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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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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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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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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 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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You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
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In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.
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I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.
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New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.
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Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
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