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I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
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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Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.
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Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
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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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A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.
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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, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
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It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
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What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
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I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
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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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