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Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people are trying to live. Unless they own a hotel chain, I don't think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this.
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Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
Fran Lebowitz
If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
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Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.
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I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.
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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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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.
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Frenchman: Germans with good food.
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I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.
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It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.
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Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.
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