Eve Babitz

Eve's Hollywood

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Her brilliant innocence is something that is so charming and so sexy and so purely about life that you have to have been there, you have you have heard her laugh, you have to have seen her roomful of flowers and her purple satin capes made in Rome lined with iridescent taffeta to know that it is possible, Anything is Possible and that a woman spun out into the finest silk makes the strongest rope. I waited until I got around her to eat caviar, otherwise, I knew I’d never get the point.

and time even stopped now and then and let things shimmer since time, too, is affected by beauty and will stop sometimes for a moment.

Our 18-year-old vast jadedness came out in little puffs from our ears, like steamboats.

There are some aspects of the East Coast which people from LA regard as color-blindness, just as I cannot understand, ever, about Harvard or Boston, a certain tunnel quality that cuts off periphery vision and stops one from looking across restaurants, I guess it is. Or not knowing where you’ll be in a month.

Her cheeks glowed out of girlish and adult confusion, the whole thing was a manic act of God.

Here she’d wanted this polished finish, and what it looked like she’d done was a jagged prologue.

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