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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Humorist
Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Blood
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I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.
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I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
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In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.
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Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.
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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
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There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
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What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
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People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything.
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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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Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.
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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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Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.
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I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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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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