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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
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
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I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
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Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
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I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
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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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Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
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If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.
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It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
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A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
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New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.
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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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Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.
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When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references. I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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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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Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.
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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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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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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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