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I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
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Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Midnight

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