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To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. first, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from new york. you can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. i don't care how close they tell you it is. "oh, it's only thirty miles." thirty miles? at 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside new york, you might as well be starting out in omaha.
-Fran Lebowitz
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To Me The Biggest Waste Of Time

Fran Lebowitz
To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. first, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from new york. you can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. i don't care how close they tell you it is. "oh, it's only thirty miles." thirty miles? at 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside new york, you might as well be starting out in omaha.
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