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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: 73
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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Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
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I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.
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I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
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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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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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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
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If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.
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I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
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It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.
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I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
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Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of 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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Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.
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