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A salad is not a meal, it is a style.

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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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I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
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I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
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Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
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When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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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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Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
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Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.
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Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.
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There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
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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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...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.
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I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
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