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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.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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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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Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.
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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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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.
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Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
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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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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 Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
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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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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
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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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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
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The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
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A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
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I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.
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