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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Frenchman: Germans with good food.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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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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My favorite animal is steak.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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