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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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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
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If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
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[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.
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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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