Reasons Why Fran Lebowitz Has Writer’s Block
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$10-a-pack cigarettes can’t be smoked in restaurants, taxis, bookstores, or the 92nd Street Y.
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The only tea parties held in Manhattan require cucumber sandwiches.
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The words celebutante, reality TV, and molecular gastronomy do not appear in dictionaries from the 1970′s. Neither does laptop.
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She’s setting the VCR to record Rachel Maddow.
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One does not go to a disco to do cocaine; one goes to a club to do X.
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Kids don’t know about Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem, Stonewall or mood rings.
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Times Square is not riddled with drugs, prostitutes, or graffiti, it’s got something worse: tourists.
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Everyone thinks she’s that woman who took photos for Vanity Fair.
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