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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?
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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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.
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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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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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