Eve Babitz Quotes

I'm a mermaid now, half my body.

Eve Babitz

Recitation: by Male by Female

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BodyNowHalfMermaid

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Johannes Tauler

NatureGodSoulGracePresentHere

When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

John Eisenhower

TemporaryFranceGeneralFell

When you're writing, it's so absorbing. It's like a drop cloth goes over you, and the world outside falls away, but you do have a miniature version of the world, your own world, that you actually have some control over. I love to work.

Meg Wolitzer

WorkLoveWritingControlWorldYou

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

John Malkovich

WantRunEmpire

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Robert Henri

LifeArtI AmLivingMaking A Living

My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

Angela Duckworth

ParentingSelfishThinkThinkingSay

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Michael J. Fox

ScienceGreatTimeProgressMedical

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

Michael Badnarik

I AmTaxNeedTaxesIndividualAm

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

PoliticsRealizeFirstComeBears

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

Michael Moore

LoveLiveTimeMenPeopleCollege

I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.

Luke Donald

NeverEventsClubOnlyOlympicSome

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

Austin Mahone

LoveCultureAmericaYouKnowOver

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