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If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Humorist
Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
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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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Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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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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If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.
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People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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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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I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
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No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.
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If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.
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