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Eve Babitz

Black Swans

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  • Natalie Halehas quoted2 years ago
    And fiction got through to me where facts had feared to tread.
  • mirepsphas quoted10 months ago
    “I stood outside that window in the dark
  • mirepsphas quoted10 months ago
    God, jealousy sure is a mad dog from hell with rabies
  • mirepsphas quoted10 months ago
    when we thought how you behaved was the fault of other people.
    The dictionary I own does not define jealousy as pain. It uses words like “resentment,” “envy,” “mental uneasiness from suspicion,” and the effete “mood
  • mirepsphas quoted10 months ago
    when we thought how you behaved was the fault of other people
  • mirepsphas quotedlast year
    It’s only temporary: you either die, or get better
  • mirepsphas quotedlast year
    beauty without a whisper of fading, sagging, or wrinkling, although real girls do age, of course, no matter how self-enchanted they are. And age is a disaster
  • mirepsphas quotedlast year
    Eve is still fighting back against those that would tell her how to write, what to write about, and how to spend her days
  • mirepsphas quotedlast year
    don’t think anyone has written about the freefall of youth as well as Babitz—the power of its taut skin and amoral beauty, the freedom from consequences and the future
  • mirepsphas quotedlast year
    The Eve of Black Swans has the weight of the years and the voice of history within her
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