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The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
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I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
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Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
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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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Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
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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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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think.
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I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.
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Frenchman: Germans with good food.
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I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.
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