Eve Babitz Quotes
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.
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Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.
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My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not.
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Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.
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If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart.
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The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing with a consequence. Antecedents get us going. Consequences keep us going.
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When the honest, sincere Christian is faced with the decision regarding whether a thing is right or wrong, he should ask, does it agree with all that the Scripture has to say on the subject?
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That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
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With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.
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Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
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At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.
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There was a savagery to his smile, and a darkness in his eyes when he watched her. He was in love with her. And it hurt him.
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No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.
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I was in love with Paul Butterfield.
