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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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Morristown
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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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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