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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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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
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I just write when fear overtakes me.
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Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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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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The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
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Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.
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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 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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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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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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