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Jim
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[Eve Babitz] was on to the alcoholism that she believed killed Quintana. 'They all had drinking problems,' she said of Joan [Didion], Dunne, and Quintana. 'But Quintana's the one that wound up dead.'
— 16 hours, 25 min ago
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elena porras
is on page 212 of 352
god, the thing is, I keep reading to try and get at the actual people of interest in this book (the titular ones, mind you) and I keep getting writing that makes me feel like Regina George is walking me through the fucking burn book with every other sentence feeling as though anolik was writing in the same sort of unhinged « so ha! » manner that RG wrote ‘this girl is the nastiest skank bitch I’ve ever met’
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Jim
is on page 94 of 352
Now. the term "groupie" is one Eve [Babitz] assigned to herself. And, in the strictest sense, she was a groupie; which is to say, a woman in hot sexual pursuit of rock 'n' rollers.
— Mar 28, 2026 09:34PM
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ruby
is on page 82 of 352
first month of uni has destroyed me emotionally, hence destroying my reading habits, but with me turning 20 tomorrow I felt I needed to be inspired by the cool girls of the 60s on how to approach this new chapter
— Mar 28, 2026 06:19PM
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