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

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Humorist
Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.
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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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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'm very lazy, I hate to work.
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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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[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.
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New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
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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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It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
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People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
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Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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