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You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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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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I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.
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If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
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When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.
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Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
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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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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
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I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.
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I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
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