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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Orator
Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Personal
Fashion
Style

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New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.
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Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.
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You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
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Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
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Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
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There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.
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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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There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.
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China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
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New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.
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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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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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