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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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Frenchmen
Germans
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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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I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
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I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
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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 hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
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I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
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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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If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
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Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.
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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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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.
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People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.
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A salad is not a meal, it is a style.
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