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No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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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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If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
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No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.
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The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
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Frenchman: Germans with good food.
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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.
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Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.
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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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I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.
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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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It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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