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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
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Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Responsibility
Sleep
Death
Without

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