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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One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.
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When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.
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My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.
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If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
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I was in love with Paul Butterfield.
