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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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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Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.
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Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.
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Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.
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If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
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The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
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I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
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London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
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For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
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When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.
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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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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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