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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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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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A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.
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While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.
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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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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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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.
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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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Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.
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I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare.
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If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
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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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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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If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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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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