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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.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.
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We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.
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You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
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I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.
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Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
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[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
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Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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People always say pop culture. As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
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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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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
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