Edie Sedgwick Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Edie Sedgwick
I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system. — Edie Sedgwick
Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can't really remember the difference between what's real and what you've created in your head? — Edie Sedgwick
I'm in love with everyone I've ever met in one way or another. I'm just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being. — Edie Sedgwick
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. — Edie Sedgwick
It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs ... and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue ... and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up ... Don't you think that must mean something? — Edie Sedgwick
If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand. — Edie Sedgwick
I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and stripped it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me. — Edie Sedgwick
You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. — Edie Sedgwick
I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself. — Edie Sedgwick
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. — Edie Sedgwick
I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment. — Edie Sedgwick
Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't - it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego. — Edie Sedgwick
I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine. — Edie Sedgwick
It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills. — Edie Sedgwick
It's sort of like a mockery, in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers where there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wander around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile. You can tell by people's eyes. — Edie Sedgwick
You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way ... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing. — Edie Sedgwick
In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem ... Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. — Edie Sedgwick
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 Sedgwick
I'll have to put more earrings on. I bet that someone could analyze me and tell my condition by my earrings. — Edie Sedgwick
While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really ... motivated by psychological disturbance. — Edie Sedgwick
I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come. — Edie Sedgwick
Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling. — Edie Sedgwick
I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..There's no way to tell anyone who hasn't been through it, there's no way to explain it to anyone who hasn't tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine — Edie Sedgwick
I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident. — Edie Sedgwick