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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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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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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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