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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
Fran Lebowitz
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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
Robert Paine Cook
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Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.
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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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If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
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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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When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.
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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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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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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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I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
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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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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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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