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to keep their money for themselves

He didn’t really believe she didn’t want a house on Cabot Lake, just as it was hard for him to believe she was ever truly angry with him. She thought of the cavalcade of workers required to keep two or more places running. She wanted something easily manageable, one small place in the world, entire…

—p.112 The Paris Review, Issue 254, Winter 2025 Eleutherius (109) missing author
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just NYU

[...] Somehow Rosaline managed to irritate both Elena and Theresa almost immediately, by describing herself as “just a social worker.”

“This is just not⁠—⁠you have to be confident. You have to be more confident. Social work is amazing,” Theresa said. But Theresa would never have been a social wo…

—p.110 Eleutherius (109) missing author
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people who believe in Oriental magic are fools⁠

Danny O’Keefe really likes me. He has been over a lot of times, but he is so involved in tantric yoga that I feel he’s a fool. I can’t help thinking people who believe in Oriental magic are fools⁠—it’s so boring and unsensual. I must be a confirmed sensualist because anything that pleases me on a g…

—p.91 Journal, 1969-1970 (73) by Eve Babitz
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it seems to be paying off as starving inevitably will project/panopticon-diaries

Well⁠—I’m already 132 lbs, which is very encouraging since I practically starved and exercised all day yesterday and nearly drove myself nuts. However, it seems to be paying off as starving inevitably will.

—p.90 Journal, 1969-1970 (73) by Eve Babitz
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this weekend I gained 3 pounds project/panopticon-diaries

Well, I’m so broke I’m overdrawn at the bank and it makes me very nervous, especially since I don’t know when the check from the P. G. & E. [cover] is coming in, and I’m just really broke.

This weekend I gained 3 pounds. Friday was Daddy’s birthday so I ate Chinese chicken and cake. Joe Pailburn…

—p.79 Journal, 1969-1970 (73) by Eve Babitz