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Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
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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Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment you don't want them around your children.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
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The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
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Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.
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I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
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It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.
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There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.
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If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.
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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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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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I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
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I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.
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I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.
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The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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