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Quotes from Edie : Girl On Fire — Edie Sedgwick

1943–1971 United States

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15 quotes

It's sort of like a mockery in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers when there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish.

Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)

I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!

Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)

You live alone, creating your life as you go.

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I never thought about going up...I don't know, don't you think that must mean something?

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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

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But I really, since I exist, at all, I believe that it's possible for people...I've lived through impossible situations.

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I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.

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I just believe, and that's the magic...That's the whole thing, you talk about magic that there's to believe in, and it is there. But most people don't really believe in it.

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If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.

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It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

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I act this way because that's the way I feel like acting. If people like it, fine. If they don't, that's their problem.

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I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.

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I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

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Isn't that sad! I'm so fragile. It's tragic [laughs]. Can you believe it? That's so sad.

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I came to New York to see what I could see — that's from a children's book, isn't it? — and to find the living part.

Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edie Sedgwick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.