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Once when I testified before a Senate Committee about LSD, Bobby Kennedy asked me how many people I knew smoked marijuana. Brazenly I announced, "Everyone I know smokes marijuana except my grandmother.
~ Eve Babitz
watching their smoke lured out the window by the sun.
~ Eve Babitz
And he treated me with a chivalrous masculine know-how that I sopped up like a person who'd never heard of how chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.
~ Eve Babitz
Yeah?" Janet said, lighting a Marlboro. Janet looked gorgeous at Elaine's, it was exactly the right light for her;
~ Eve Babitz
He had black curly hair and was plainly a genius
~ Eve Babitz
A woman who was about Jacaranda's age approached them. She was what Jacaranda thought of as "one of those Vassar graduates who can spell from birth.
~ Eve Babitz
Minha revolução vai dar um golpe no Estado mental chamado patriarcado.
~ Eve Ensler
Half of an Assassin is just an Ass.
~ Eve Forward
They rejected his novel concept of freedom of conscience
~ Eve LaPlante
Every diet violation, every eating situation that feels out of control lays the foundation for the "diet mentality," brick by brick and diet by diet.
~ Evelyn Tribole
I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behavior.
~ Evelyn Waugh
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
~ Evelyn Waugh
There is no difference between Western media and Nazi propaganda.
~ Evgeni Kostitsyn
It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.
~ Ewan McGregor
I've killed way more people than Kaczynski, because I've been paying a lot of taxes in the last fifteen years, and he hasn't.
~ Exene Cervenka
average children do things right no -limit children do the right thing Eykis
~ Eykis
you can't spell assassin without sin and twice the ass.
~ Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing—nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.
~ Ezra Pound
A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
~ Ezra Pound
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
~ Ezra Pound
Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
~ Ezra Pound
Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection— / We shall get ourselves rather disliked.
~ Ezra Pound
And I am homesick After mine own kind that know, and feel And have some breath for beauty and the arts.
~ Ezra Pound
So much barren regret! So many hours wasted! And now I watch, from the window, the rain, the wandering buses.
~ Ezra Pound