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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Humorist
Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.
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The other day I read that last year 58 million tourists came to New York ... where a puny eight million people are trying to live. Unless they own a hotel chain, I don't think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this.
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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
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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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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
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There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.
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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
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The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
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I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.
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Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
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Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.
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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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If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
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I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
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