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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

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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
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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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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A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A community is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.
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Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.
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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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Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
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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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No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
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Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.
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The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
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For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
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A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
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Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??
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