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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.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.
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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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There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
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New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
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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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A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A community is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.
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Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
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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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What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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