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Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Frenchmen
Germans
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We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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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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I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
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