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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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Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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When I was young, boys didn't type.
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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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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.
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Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.
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You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
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if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
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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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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.
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When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.
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The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
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Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
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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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Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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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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