"[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized."

-- Eve Babitz

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“I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.”
“My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.”
“Thereâ€™s no such thing as a painless lesson, they just donâ€™t exist. Sacrifices are necessary; you canâ€™t gain anything without losing something first. Although, if you can endure that pain, and walk away from it youâ€™ll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yea, a heart made fullmetal.”
“Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.”
“Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.”
“Such evil deeds could religion prompt.”
“I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.”
“When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.”

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