Thing of Beauty Quotes

“Life & Death
energy & Peace
if I stoped today
it was fun
Even the terrible pains that have burn me & scarred my soul it was worth it for having been allowed to walked where I've walked. Which was to hell on earth Heaven on earth, back again, into, under far in between, through it, in it over it and above it.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia

“here we are, without our families, totally out of our heads, and we don’t know where on earth we are. That was the feeling of the early seventies—nobody knew where they were.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty

“It was kind of sad. We got her on the cover, but I could see the change in her beauty. There was an emptiness in her eyes.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty

“In Italy everything is more romantic. I can also be in bed with ten girls, but I love these ten girls.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty

“I think that’s the nature of many relationships anyway, most relationships. There’s that element of….you would call it prostitution.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia

“The girl looked like walking death,” Nancy recalled. “To leave somebody that sick in a bus terminal? I just didn’t get it.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty

“Life & Death energy & Peace if I stoped today it was fun Even the terriable pains that have burn me & scarred my soul it was worth it for having been allowed to walked where I’ve walked. Which was ta hell on earth Heaven on earth back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it over and above it.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty

“she fondly remembered being caught laying out several thousand Quaaludes on the Persian rug in her bedroom in her grandmother’s apartment: “She looked in and said, ‘Clean this stuff up and vacuum that carpet.’ I loved my grandmother.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty

“She scared me a little bit,” recalled Harry King. “There was something about her that made me feel uneasy. I used to say it to Way: ‘She has a demon inside of her.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty

“Don’t do it,” the patient said. “Even if she wants it, don’t let her do it. I used to be a model. You don’t want your kid to be a model.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty

“Yes, you could say that I did. It kind of creeps up on you and catches you in a world that’s, y’know, none that anyone will ever know except someone that has been there.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty

“I didn’t build into a model. I just sort of became one.”
― Stephen Fried, Thing of Beauty