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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: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
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Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.
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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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You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
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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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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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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
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When I was young, boys didn't type.
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Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
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People who get married because they're in love make a ridiculous mistake. It makes much more sense to marry your best friend. You like your best friend more than anyone you're ever going to be in love with. You dont choose your best friend because they have a cute nose.
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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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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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My favorite animal is steak.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
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