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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
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 imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.
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I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.
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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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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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This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
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I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
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A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.
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The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
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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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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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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
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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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There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
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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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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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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.
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Frenchman: Germans with good food.
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