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What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
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If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
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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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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.
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I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.
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There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.
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If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
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...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.
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I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
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I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.
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I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
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You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
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if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
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I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.
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