"... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey."

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Source : Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.153, New York Review of Books

Eve Babitz

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“The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.”

Source : George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
“I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.”
“Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is”
“I have broken all ties that bind me to the (U.S.) Army, not suddenly, impulsively, but conscientiously and after due deliberation. I sacrifice more to my principles than any other officer in the Army can do. I would rather carry a musket in the cause of the South than be commander-in-chief under Mr. Lincoln.”
“Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.”
“Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.”
“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.”
“Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.”

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