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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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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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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
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You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.
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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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You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
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A salad is not a meal, it is a style.
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I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
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Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.
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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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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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It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
Fran Lebowitz
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.
Fran Lebowitz
I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
Fran Lebowitz
I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.
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