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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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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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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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I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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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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I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
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Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??
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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
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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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Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
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Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?
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