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Fran Lebowitz

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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
Frenchman
Frenchmen
Germans
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When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.
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Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.
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Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
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I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
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Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!
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Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.
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I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
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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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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
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I've never seen the Kardashians I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.
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No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
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[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.
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