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I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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