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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.
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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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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert. I have no energy. I never have. I just have no desire to be productive.
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Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
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When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.
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When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.
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Twenty-four hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive.
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The word that best describes my feeling of having written is triumphant — triumphant on the level of Alexander the Great. Having overcome your worst fear, the thing you are most vulnerable to, that is the definition of heroic.
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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
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Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.
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Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.
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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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You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Do not even try.
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Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.
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Wealth and power are much more likely to be the result of breeding than they are of reading.
On self-help books
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If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.
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Modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.
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I like every single part of Italy, unlike Italians, who only like their part and hate all the rest. They say things like, 'You're going to... Rome?'
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.
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I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks—chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.
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Born:
October 27, 1950
(age 73)
Bio:
Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitz is an American author and public speaker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities.
Known for:
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (1994)
Metropolitan Life (1978)
Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas (1994)
Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir (2004)
Social Studies (1981)
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