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I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

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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The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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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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Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
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I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
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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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if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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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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Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.
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The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
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Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
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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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Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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