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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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Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A community is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.
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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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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
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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.
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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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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
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Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
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What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
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What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
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