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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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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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You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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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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Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.
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Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.
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If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.
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I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
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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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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
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