she's a diamond who wants to stay coal

Sarcastic and lovely and all around loon. Made friends with eeeeverybody, and anybody, creating chaos and uproar wherever she went. A blog about anything and everything.

…She indeed would compare Raymond Chandler or Jane Austen or ancient Rome to what she experienced last night with the tuna fish, but it was marvelous and fresh. -Donald Lyons  

…She indeed would compare Raymond Chandler or Jane Austen or ancient Rome to what she experienced last night with the tuna fish, but it was marvelous and fresh. -Donald Lyons  


The leotard and the shirt, I mean, that’s what every girl wants. That’s all you need in the world. It was like the underground version of the little black dress with the pearls. -Billy Name 

The leotard and the shirt, I mean, that’s what every girl wants. That’s all you need in the world. It was like the underground version of the little black dress with the pearls. -Billy Name 


All the movies with Edie were so innocent that when I think back on them, they had more of a pajama-party atmosphere than anything else -Andy Warhol, POPism

All the movies with Edie were so innocent that when I think back on them, they had more of a pajama-party atmosphere than anything else -Andy Warhol, POPism


And Edie, in there, just going on and people saying she’s been doing this, you know, for three hours… She’d sit on a table and talk and sort of do stuff and laugh. I don’t know, I guess it was my first real view of performance art, and I guess what I had seen a year or two ago at the [Fishers Island] party was kind of a personal rehearsal, you know… Maybe she became aware of how it rather fascinated and attracted people and ended up, you know, doing it for the camera, with people more scripting it. -Robin Sedgwick


She used to finish off quite a lot of sentences, “Well, I’ll just kill myself.” -Janet Palmer

She used to finish off quite a lot of sentences, “Well, I’ll just kill myself.” -Janet Palmer


The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things! -Edie

The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things! -Edie


Often, the funniest things she said were inadvertent, like asking Salvador Dalí what is was like being a famous writer. In retrospect, I wonder if she knew exactly who he was and wanted to tease him. In any event, he roared with laughter. -Ed Hennessey

Often, the funniest things she said were inadvertent, like asking Salvador Dalí what is was like being a famous writer. In retrospect, I wonder if she knew exactly who he was and wanted to tease him. In any event, he roared with laughter. -Ed Hennessey


She thought it was funny that people thought they were important. -L.M. Kit Carson

She thought it was funny that people thought they were important. -L.M. Kit Carson


To Edie, money was like play money. She would blithely spend $500 for a set of false eyelashes at Bonavita, and she would be equally blithe spending $500 of her money (well, her father’s money) for a luncheon party at the Ritz. -Ed Hennessey 

To Edie, money was like play money. She would blithely spend $500 for a set of false eyelashes at Bonavita, and she would be equally blithe spending $500 of her money (well, her father’s money) for a luncheon party at the Ritz. -Ed Hennessey 


Arthur: What are your plans for marriage? Edie: I’m, there’s only, you know I can only marry one of four, three people. Arthur: Who?  Edie: The first… and foremost, which might have to be the last, and uh, Mick Jagger… -untitled Warhol tape

Arthur: What are your plans for marriage?

Edie: I’m, there’s only, you know I can only marry one of four, three people.

Arthur: Who? 

Edie: The first… and foremost, which might have to be the last, and uh, Mick Jagger…

-untitled Warhol tape