It is not good form to take a Trick out unless one is so fi… - Fran Lebowitz

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It is not good form to take a Trick out unless one is so firmly established as to be able to afford being associated with someone who might at any given moment write a poem in public.

Fran Lebowitz

Metropolitan Life · March 13, 1978 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

free-verse-poetry

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Frances Ann Lebowitz (born October 27, 1950) is an American author, public speaker, and occasional actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the 1970s and 1980s New York art scene.

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Birth Name: Frances Ann Lebowitz

Alternative Names: Robert Paine Cook

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