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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.

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
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Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.
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If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
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For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
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There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
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Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.
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Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.
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Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.
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I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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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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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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