Didion and Babitz Quotes

“I’m not serious, but I’m good so what difference does it make?”
― Lili Anolik, Didion and Babitz

“The photo was thus a fulfillment of her paradoxical desire: to reveal herself to the world so a single person would see.”
― Lili Anolik, Didion and Babitz

“their dynamic is untrappable, unnameable, and unofficial. It was simultaneously more than a friendship and less; was as profound and rare as true love, as profound and rare as true hate.”
― Lili Anolik, Didion & Babitz

“These were the daughters of people who were beautiful, brave, and foolhardy, who had left their homes and traveled to movie dreams. In the Depression, when most of them came here, people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West. After being born of parents who believed in physical beauty as a fact of power, and being born beautiful themselves, these girls were then raised in California, where statistically the children grow taller, have better teeth and are stronger than anywhere else in the country. When they reach the age of 15 and their beauty arrives, it’s very exciting—like coming into an inheritance and, as with inheritances, it’s fun to be around when they first come into the money and watch how they spend it and on what.”
― Lili Anolik, Didion and Babitz

“I USED TO BE A PIECE OF ASS, NOW I’M AN ARTIST”
― Lili Anolik, Didion and Babitz