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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
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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Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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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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If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.
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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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I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
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I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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