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Eve Babitz
Eve Babitz
"I'm a mermaid now, half my body."
Eve Babitz
Body
Half
Now
Mermaid
"I like handsome-devil artists the best."
Eve Babitz
Best
Like
Artists
"People with brains went to New York, and people with faces came West."
Eve Babitz
People
New
Brains
West
"I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County."
Eve Babitz
Worst
Orange
Said
Comic
"I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him."
Eve Babitz
Glasses
Who
Reading
Mad
"I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it."
Eve Babitz
Love
People
Stand
Ideas
"I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions."
Eve Babitz
Death
Man
You
Confidence
"From earliest childhood, I have rejoiced over the Santa Ana winds. I know those winds the way the Eskimos know their snows."
Eve Babitz
Childhood
Way
Know
Those
"I looked like Brigitte Bardot, and I was Stravinsky's goddaughter."
Eve Babitz
Like
Looked
Stravinsky
"I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'"
Eve Babitz
Smile
Wise
Me
You
"Partner dancing is a cultured act."
Eve Babitz
Partner
Act
Dancing
Cultured
"By 1976, I was, like, Gonesville. I practically lived at the Troubador for several years. When Bette Midler was there for six weeks, I went every day for both shows. I sat there mesmerized. The only person who went as much as I did was Cher."
Eve Babitz
Day
Person
Who
Like
"The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white."
Eve Babitz
White
Anything
Reason
Just
"I was in love with Paul Butterfield."
Eve Babitz
Love
Paul
"Everybody steals my lines."
Eve Babitz
Everybody
Lines
Steals
"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."
Eve Babitz
Myself
Today
Show
Disguise
"'Dirty Dancing' is one of my favorite movies, and I was in love with Patrick Swayze for years, but I tried to stay out of his way and never to meet him because I knew if I did, he'd want to talk about yogurt or some weird dietary restriction or something."
Eve Babitz
Love
Never
Way
Weird
"When I promise I'll do something, I do it. At least since I got sober."
Eve Babitz
Sober
Something
Got
Least
"Musicians are impossible."
Eve Babitz
Impossible
Musicians
"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."
Eve Babitz
Running
Moving
Mean
"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."
Eve Babitz
Running
Moving
Mean
"It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises."
Eve Babitz
Important
Forgotten
"[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized."
Eve Babitz
Art
Mean
Play
"I was always much too elated to imagine despair."
Eve Babitz
Despair
Imagine
"By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up"
Eve Babitz
Women
Memorable
Maturity
"I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)"
Eve Babitz
Art
Games
Museums
"You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)"
Eve Babitz
Hurt
Art
Mean
"Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men."
Eve Babitz
Men
Class
Rich
"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."
Eve Babitz
Two
Brain
Tragedy
"It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing."
Eve Babitz
Surfing
Balance
"... 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."
Eve Babitz
Book
Trying
Library
1
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