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“This sense of 'place' -- that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.” quote by Eve Babitz — Download Open image

““This sense of 'place' -- that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.””

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It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.

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[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it…

“It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would fall out…

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

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

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

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

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“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most,…

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“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a…

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

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

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“That which they have need of . . . let it be given them day by day without fail. Ezra 6:9 If we really trust God, we shall expect to bear unaided the spiritual burden both of our own needs and of those of the work. We must not secretly hope for support from some human source. Our faith is…

Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that…

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“Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.”

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“Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. Mind…

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We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good,…

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“The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word ‘poverty’ suggests.”

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I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who…

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“When the first chakra is disconnected from the feminine Earth, we can feel orphaned and motherless. The masculine principle predominates, and we look for security from material things. Individuality prevails over relationship, and selfish drives triumph over family, social and global responsibility. The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion,…

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If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things…

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Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

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I didn't have a great childhood, and neither did Debbie, my wife, so we both try to give the kids not only the material…

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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion…

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