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When I was young, boys didn't type.

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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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Boys
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Young

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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
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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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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
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It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
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I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.
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What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
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People always say pop culture. As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
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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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