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No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.
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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Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.
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Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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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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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.
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Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
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I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
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If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
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Frenchman: Germans with good food.
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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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I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
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Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
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The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
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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 live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
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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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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.
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