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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: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.
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I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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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.
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I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
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