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I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'

~Eve Babitz

Topics: Asked Did Dumb Else Had How Just Me Men Mornings New Nothing Now Once Pants Questions Red Red Wine Say Smile Spill Thought Try Typewriter Used Wine Wise Would Write You

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I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.

~Eve Babitz

Topics: Bar Barney Because Comic County Ford He Idea Martin Met Orange Said Square Stand-Up Steve Steve Martin Thought Wanted Worst

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I was in love with Paul Butterfield.

~Eve Babitz

Topics: Love Paul

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Everybody steals my lines.

~Eve Babitz

Topics: Everybody Lines Steals

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I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.

~Eve Babitz

Topics: Album Covers Designer Disguise Monument Myself Photographer Photographs Show Some Today

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I'm a mermaid now, half my body.

~Eve Babitz

Topics: Body Half Mermaid Now

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I like handsome-devil artists the best.

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Topics: Artists Best Like

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'Dirty Dancing' is one of my favorite movies, and I was in love with Patrick Swayze for years, but I tried to stay out of his way and never to meet him because I knew if I did, he'd want to talk about yogurt or some weird dietary restriction or something.

~Eve Babitz

Topics: About Because Dancing Did Dirty Favorite Favorite Movies He Him His His Way Knew Love Meet Movies Never Out Restriction Some Something Stay Talk Tried Want Way Weird Years Yogurt I Tried

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When I promise I'll do something, I do it. At least since I got sober.

~Eve Babitz

Topics: Got Least Promise Since Sober Something

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Musicians are impossible.

~Eve Babitz

Topics: Impossible Musicians

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 13th, 1943

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