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I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.
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Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.
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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
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Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.
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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
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New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.
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Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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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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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
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I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
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To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.
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I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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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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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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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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