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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: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Democracy
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...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.
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Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
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I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.
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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.
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Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
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Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.
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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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A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
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It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
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I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
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There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
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The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
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There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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