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Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
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Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
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Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.
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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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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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Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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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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Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.
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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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In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.
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It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
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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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If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.
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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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I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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