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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?

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
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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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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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I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
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Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.
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I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
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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 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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I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.
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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
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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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