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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
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Humorist
Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Democracy
Society
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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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People always say pop culture. As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
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When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.
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The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
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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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Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.
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I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.
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I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
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