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Sleep is death without the responsibility.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Orator
Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Sleep
Death
Without
Responsibility

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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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