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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

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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