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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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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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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I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.
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While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
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London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
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[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
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I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
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Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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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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Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
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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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This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
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There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
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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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