Eve Babitz Quotes

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

When you go for first date, you are so conscious about what you are wearing, how you smell, how much money you have in your wallet. You have to plan the day - you have to plan the traffic - but in a relationship, you take all the things for granted.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I'm a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there's a safety in that.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

The more comfortable you are, the more confident you are - in how you say your lines or how you perform in a certain scene - because you're working with great people who will watch over you and won't let you down.

I'm not gonna say something unless I really feel comfortable around you. Unless I feel like I know you, I'm not gonna really open up.

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.

When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

You fit me better than my favorite sweater.

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.

Can't keep Love like money in the bank