"There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds."

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Source : Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.134, New York Review of Books

Eve Babitz

#Running Quotes #Moving Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest.!”
“I have a lot of respect for the bikers, which I've always had.”
“We often forget that we are nature...”
“Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.”
“I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear”

Source : "Gore Verbinski On Cancellation Of North Korea-Based Steve Carell Film" by Mike Fleming Jr., deadline.com. December 17, 2014.
“Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.”

Source : "Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2009.
“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”

Source : "Bring Up the Bodies". Book by Hilary Mantel, May 8, 2012.
“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.”

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