Birthday party Quote 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Eve Babitz

“Secrets are lies that you tell to your friends.”

— Eve Babitz

“Everyone knew the way to dance was like black people did and they all danced that way.”

— Eve Babitz

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

— Eve Babitz

“Two days before she went to New York, Jacaranda stopped drinking.”

— 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,…

— 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…

— Eve Babitz

It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.

— Eve Babitz

“Jacaranda believed that in the world of airplanes there were only two kinds of luggage—carry-on or lost.”

— 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;…

— Eve Babitz