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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
Robert Paine Cook
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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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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
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There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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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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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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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
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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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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
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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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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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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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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
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China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.
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Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
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I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
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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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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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