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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
Author
Humorist
Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
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Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!
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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
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Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.
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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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This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
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When I was young, boys didn't type.
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Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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