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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
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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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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.
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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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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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[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
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