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Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
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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Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.
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Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.
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What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
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There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
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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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All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.
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[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.
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Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
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Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
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A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
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I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.
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What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
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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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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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