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When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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