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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
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
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If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
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I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.
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Frenchman: Germans with good food.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.
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if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
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Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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