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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
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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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I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
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The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
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People always say pop culture. As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
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Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.
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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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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
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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'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.
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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?
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.
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I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.
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