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

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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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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[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.
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Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
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I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.
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A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
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The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
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Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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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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Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??
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I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
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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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The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
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Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.
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When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.
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People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything.
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I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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