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London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
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'm very lazy, I hate to work.
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
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I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
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Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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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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What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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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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Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.
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