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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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Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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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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I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive.
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Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
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Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
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Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
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I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
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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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The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
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To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.
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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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It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.
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Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.
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There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.
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I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
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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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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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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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I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
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