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Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Naivete
Sexy
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Women
Knowingness

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