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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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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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