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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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Humorist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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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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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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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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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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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.
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...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.
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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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Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
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I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.
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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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