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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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Humorist
Journalist
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
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I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
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People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.
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Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??
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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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When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.
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I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
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Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.
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London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
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It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.
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There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
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Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.
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I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
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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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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
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