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Patricia Highsmith quotes: Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October. Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them? What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?""By feeling things - too much, I suppose," Therese answered conscientiously. Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?"
"By feeling things - too much, I suppose," Therese answered conscientiously.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: How easy it was to lie when one had to lie! How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!
Patricia Highsmith quotes: It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment? It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I'm going to enjoy what I've got as long as it lasts. I'm going to enjoy what I've got as long as it lasts.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity. Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: But even that question wasn't definite enough. Perhaps it was a statement after all: I don't want to die yet without knowing you. But even that question wasn't definite enough. Perhaps it was a statement after all: I don't want to die yet without knowing you.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I think friendships are the result of certain needs that can be completely hidden from both people, sometimes hidden forever. I think friendships are the result of certain needs that can be completely hidden from both people, sometimes hidden forever.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Death was only one more adventure untried. Death was only one more adventure untried.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable. Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Everything human is alien to me. Everything human is alien to me.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Obsessions are the only things that matter. Obsessions are the only things that matter.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?''Always,' Carol said, smiling, too. Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'
'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Nothing was true but the fatigue of life and the eternal disappointment. Nothing was true but the fatigue of life and the eternal disappointment.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies. If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow? What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example. The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Happiness was a little like flying, she thought, like being a kite. It depended on how much one let the string out. Happiness was a little like flying, she thought, like being a kite. It depended on how much one let the string out.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Did the world always mete out just deserts? Did the world always mete out just deserts?
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Don't you know I love you?' Carol said. Don't you know I love you?' Carol said.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: She hated cleaning up after making something. She hated cleaning up after making something.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial. I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me. I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident. I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I have no television - I hate it. I have no television - I hate it.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing. Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity. A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything? At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don't you think? I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don't you think?
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Look at it, like a rat,' she said. 'A portrait of Harge. Look at it, like a rat,' she said. 'A portrait of Harge.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history. What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not. Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Do you like her''Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God. Do you like her'
'Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: There were many times when logic was of no comfort. There were many times when logic was of no comfort.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout. A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing. She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone. I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication. I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: She envied him. She envied him his faith there would always be a place, a home, a job, someone else for him. She envied him that attitude. She envied him. She envied him his faith there would always be a place, a home, a job, someone else for him. She envied him that attitude.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: The way to see the world was to see it drunk. Everything was created to be seen drunk. The way to see the world was to see it drunk. Everything was created to be seen drunk.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: My mistake was in telling a stranger my private business. My mistake was in telling a stranger my private business.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy. I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious. Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible. I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: He robs everyone He robs everyone
Patricia Highsmith quotes: If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful , or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture. If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful , or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things. I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it. I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter,' Dickie said, 'but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine. I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: She had the kind of face that must be seen in action to be attractive. She had the kind of face that must be seen in action to be attractive.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not. For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long. I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room. He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Kick me out, she thought. What was in or out? How did one kick out an emotion? Kick me out, she thought. What was in or out? How did one kick out an emotion?
Patricia Highsmith quotes: It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: My angel," Carold said. "Flung out of space. My angel," Carold said. "Flung out of space.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground. Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: One blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill. One blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: The flowers you gave me - they died. The flowers you gave me - they died.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways. I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else. I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart. Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy. Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I know that Southern redhead type, Bruno said, poking at his apple pie. I know that Southern redhead type, Bruno said, poking at his apple pie.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman. I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian. I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Even the pearl at her earlobe looked alive, like a drop of water that a touch might destroy. Even the pearl at her earlobe looked alive, like a drop of water that a touch might destroy.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: When she stood up, the woman was looking at her with the calm gray eyes that Therese could neither quite face nor look away from. When she stood up, the woman was looking at her with the calm gray eyes that Therese could neither quite face nor look away from.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Though all we have known is only a beginning. Though all we have known is only a beginning.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: The justice I have received, I shall give back. The justice I have received, I shall give back.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Therese could not think of a single question that would be proper to ask, because all her questions were so enormous. Therese could not think of a single question that would be proper to ask, because all her questions were so enormous.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I am the forever-seeking. I am the forever-seeking.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it. And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect. And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he? Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?
Patricia Highsmith quotes: It was easy, after all, simply to open the door and escape. It was easy, she thought, because she was not really escaping at all. It was easy, after all, simply to open the door and escape. It was easy, she thought, because she was not really escaping at all.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder! Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
Patricia Highsmith quotes: What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said. What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her. Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it. I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me. I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week. I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly. I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity. Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them. I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: A classic is something with a human situation. A classic is something with a human situation.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol? She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?
Patricia Highsmith quotes: What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?
Patricia Highsmith quotes: There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment. There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough. Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.
Patricia Highsmith quotes: Hate had begun to paralyze his thinking, he realized, to make little blind alleys of the roads that logic had pointed out to him in New York. Hate had begun to paralyze his thinking, he realized, to make little blind alleys of the roads that logic had pointed out to him in New York.

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