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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
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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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 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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I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
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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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The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
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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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There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.
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Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.
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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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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.
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