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I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.
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This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
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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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I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
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A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A community is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.
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I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.
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What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
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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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