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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: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.
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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 love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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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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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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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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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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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.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
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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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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.
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The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
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