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If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.
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[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
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When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references. I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
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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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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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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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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