Eve Babitz Quotes
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
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The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.
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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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On the set I never know what day of the week it is.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
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I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!
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I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.
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I know who I am, and the thing about power for me is that it's connected to a source that's obviously greater than myself. Any time you can connect to the source and understand that that's where all of your energy, your creativity, your joy and your triumph come from, I consider that to be authentic power.
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Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
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Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.
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Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.
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I like handsome-devil artists the best.
