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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.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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People who get married because they're in love make a ridiculous mistake. It makes much more sense to marry your best friend. You like your best friend more than anyone you're ever going to be in love with. You dont choose your best friend because they have a cute nose.
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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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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
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I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.
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I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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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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I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
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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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Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
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If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.
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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
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There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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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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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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