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Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
Fran Lebowitz
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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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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 think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
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What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
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The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.
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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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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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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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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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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Frenchman: Germans with good food.
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The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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I've never seen the Kardashians I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.
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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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