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> [“She could get published in a sound journal that meant business and didn’t publish fly-by-nights. She was twenty-eight. It was time for her to O.D., not get published.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/she-could-get-published-in-a-sound-journal-that-meant-business-and/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

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## More by Eve Babitz

> [It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/it-s-the-frames-which-make-some-things-important-and-some-things/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [ \[Photographer Julian Wasser\] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/photographer-julian-wasser-had-this-great-idea-that-i-should-play/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [“It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would fall out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/it-made-her-question-why-human-beings-always-appeared-to-be-coming/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [“Secrets are lies that you tell to your friends.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/secrets-are-lies-that-you-tell-to-your-friends/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [“Everyone knew the way to dance was like black people did and they all danced that way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/everyone-knew-the-way-to-dance-was-like-black-people-did-and-they-all/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/by-the-time-i-d-grown-up-i-naturally-supposed-that-i-d-grown-up/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [“Two days before she went to New York, Jacaranda stopped drinking.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/two-days-before-she-went-to-new-york-jacaranda-stopped-drinking/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/she-discovered-what-most-writers-insist-is-true-nowadays-which-is/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/the-two-girls-grew-up-at-the-edge-of-the-ocean-and-knew-it-was/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/it-was-all-balance-but-then-she-already-knew-that-from-surfing/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [“Jacaranda believed that in the world of airplanes there were only two kinds of luggage—carry-on or lost.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/jacaranda-believed-that-in-the-world-of-airplanes-there-were-only-two/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/there-are-three-basic-personality-factors-in-cats-the-kind-who-run-up/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [“She brought fresh flowers in from the tumbling-down hill where her landlady threw handfuls of wildflower seeds each spring.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/she-brought-fresh-flowers-in-from-the-tumbling-down-hill-where-her/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/there-are-only-three-things-to-say-about-cocaine-one-there-is-no-such/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

> [“...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve-babitz/chivalry-was-just-another-nefarious-masculine-scheme-to-keep-women-in/)

[Eve Babitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve-babitz/)

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