Eve Babitz Quotes

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I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer.... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.

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Marilyn [Monroe] kept putting herself in other people's hands, believed them. They let her think that she was just a shitty Hollywood actress and Arthur Miller was a brilliant genius.

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I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.

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The thing about Harrison [Ford] was Harrison could fuck. Nine people a day. It's a talent, loving nine different people in one day. Warren [Beatty] could only do six.

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It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.

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There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds.

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[Jim Morrison's] voice was embarrassing, sounding so sudden and personal and uttering such hogwash.

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By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up.

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It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.

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There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine.... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

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Anyone who lived past thirty just wasn't trying hard enough to have fun.

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Being in bed with Jim [Morrison] was like being in bed with Michelangelo's David, only with blue eyes.

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My grandmother wants me to get married like her and have ingrates for children and grandchildren who hang up on her.

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When they reach the age of fifteen and their beauty arrives, it's very exciting—like coming into an inheritance.

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When men I had once thought of as wise daddies asked me 'How do you write?'... I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'

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