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“I wrote pornography when I was young to make money, to make very little money. . . . Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.”

—Fran Lebowitz, writer, “A Humorist at Work,” The Paris Review, 1993. Image: “The Truth,” Jules Joseph Lefebvre, 1870.

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Tolltaker where? The NJ Turnpike?

 

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