Eve Babitz Quotes

#1. On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.

Norman Mailer

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I sometimes read books on my iPad.

David Sedaris

#5. We've all got our weaknesses.

Cynthia Hand

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

Eve Babitz

#7. Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth.

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Eve Babitz

#9. How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Franz Kafka

#10. waved a pair of underwear at him. "Grown men do not wear boxers with the Muppets on them. When I'm about to give a blowjob, I don't want to be suddenly confronted with Miss Piggy.

Amy Fecteau

#11. For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.

Eve Babitz

#12. When there is no bread and even when there is we should eat our fill of one another.

Marie-Claire Blais

#13. Of course, if you're hoping for a perfect world, you're bound to be disappointed. But an interesting world
now that's doable. It's right here in front of you.

George Hammond

#14. But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well ...
Send her back to where she came.
Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.

Meg Cabot

#15. I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

Eve Babitz

#16. The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden.

Eve Babitz

#17. . . I wonder if I'll ever be able to have what I like or if my tastes are too various to be sustained by one of anything.

Eve Babitz

#18. Get my swan costume ready.

Anna Pavlova

#19. 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

#20. The horror! The horror!

Joseph Conrad

#21. The computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly.

Freeman Dyson

#22. When you live among piranhas, you find truth and goodness an asset.

Lisa Carlisle

#23. Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

Eve Babitz

#24. This sense of 'place'
that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.

Eve Babitz