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Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
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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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When I was young, boys didn't type.
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I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
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