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There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Orator
Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Democracy
Society
Culture
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Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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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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Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
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