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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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
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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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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
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I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.
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A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A community is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.
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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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Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
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People always say pop culture. As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
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I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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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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There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
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When I was young, boys didn't type.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
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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'm very lazy, I hate to work.
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If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
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I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
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