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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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New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.
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When I was young, boys didn't type.
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There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.
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Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
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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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China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.
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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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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
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I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.
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I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.
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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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Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.
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Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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