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I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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People who get married because they're in love make a ridiculous mistake. It makes much more sense to marry your best friend. You like your best friend more than anyone you're ever going to be in love with. You dont choose your best friend because they have a cute nose.
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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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Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!
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While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
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I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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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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The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people are trying to live. Unless they own a hotel chain, I don't think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this.
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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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I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
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Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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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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What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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