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I've never seen the Kardashians I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.
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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Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
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A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
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Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!
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I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
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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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Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.
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Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.
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New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.
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In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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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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I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
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I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
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Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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