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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Humorist
Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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When I was young, boys didn't type.
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Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.
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I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.
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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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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.
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When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.
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[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
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A salad is not a meal, it is a style.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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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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Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.
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Frenchman: Germans with good food.
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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