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A salad is not a meal, it is a style.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
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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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There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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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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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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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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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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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
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Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
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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.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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