"I was always much too elated to imagine despair."

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Source : Eve Babitz (1993). “Black Swans: Stories”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

Eve Babitz

#Despair Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”
“I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.”
“Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.”
“I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.”
“Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.”
“When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.”
“Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.”
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”

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