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For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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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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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
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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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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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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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I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
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If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
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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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I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.
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To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.
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I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
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Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.
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China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.
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Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.
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