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Eve's Hollywood QUOTES

Eve's Hollywood QUOTES

1 " So it turned out that power was the quality of knowing what you liked. An odd thing for power to be. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

2 " Culturally, L.A. has always been a humid jungle alive with seething L.A. projects that I guess people from other places just can't see. It takes a certain kind of innocence to like L.A., anyway. It requires a certain plain happiness inside to be happy in L.A., to choose it and be happy here. When people are not happy, they fight against L.A. and say it's a 'wasteland' and other helpful descriptions. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

3 " We were hot, the sea was one long wave to be ridden in, our skins were dark, and time even stopped now and then and let things shimmer since time, too, is affected by beauty and will stop sometimes for a moment. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

4 " She knew exactly, sort of, what she was going to do. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

5 " You can't read Proust at the Laundromat. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

6 " I dressed next to her in gym (on my other side was this nice girl named Cathy whose only flaw was that she was kind of gullible and that kept me from being too shocked when I saw her in Life magazine crouched under a rock as one of the “Manson Family” and called Gypsy). "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

7 " Every article about her sooner or later gets around to the subject of her lovers, who were reportedly legion. (Earl McGrath, former president of Rolling Stone Records: “In every young man’s life there is an Eve Babitz. It’s usually Eve Babitz.”) "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

8 " In the Depression, when most of them came here, people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

9 " Attitude” was the word they used for someone who knew what they liked. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

10 " Attitude' was the word they used for someone who knew what they liked. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

11 " We were always being taken to rehearsals when we were little and it is probably because of that that I like rehearsals better than concerts. There is something about listening to a group of people try over and over to get it right and at last do that provides a tension of drama you don't get when they're all dressed up giving a concert. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

12 " The beach from that summer was called Roadside. It was 1958 and a lot of kids from West L.A. went there—tough kids with knives, razors, tire irons and lowered cars. No kids from my school or any of the schools nearby went to Roadside, they went to Sorrento where there were never any fights and where most of the kids from Hollywood High, Fairfax and Beverly spent their summers listening to “Venus” on the radio or playing volleyball. If I had only known about Sorrento, I never would have gone to the beach so passionately, since Sorrento was a dispassionate beach involved mainly in the junior high and high school ramifications of polite society, sororities, Seventeen magazine, football players and not getting your hair wet. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

13 " Once when I testified before a Senate Committee about LSD, Bobby Kennedy asked me how many people I knew smoked marijuana. Brazenly I announced, “Everyone I know smokes marijuana except my grandmother. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood

14 " The thing about prisons of your own devise is that most of them are designed for traveling and can be taken anywhere, even from small towns in Michigan where you were ugly, all the way to glamorous rock shows where you have to have a pass to get backstage. "

― Eve Babitz , Eve's Hollywood