Edie Sedgwick Quotes

#1. I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident.

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#2. I'm in love with everyone I've ever met in one way or another. I'm just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

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#3. I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

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#4. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

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#5. I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.

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#6. You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way ... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.

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#7. I'll have to put more earrings on. I bet that someone could analyze me and tell my condition by my earrings.

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#8. I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment.

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#9. If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.

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#10. It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs ... and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue ... and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up ... Don't you think that must mean something?

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#11. I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

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#12. Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can't really remember the difference between what's real and what you've created in your head?

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#13. In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem ... Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.

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#14. I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..There's no way to tell anyone who hasn't been through it, there's no way to explain it to anyone who hasn't tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine

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#15. It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

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#16. I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.

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#17. While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really ... motivated by psychological disturbance.

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#18. I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

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#19. You live alone, creating your life as you go.

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#20. I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come.

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#21. Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling.

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