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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.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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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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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.
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Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
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It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
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I've never seen the Kardashians I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.
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I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
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The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people are trying to live. Unless they own a hotel chain, I don't think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this.
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Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
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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 wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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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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The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
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Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
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Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
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I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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