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Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October. — Patricia Highsmith

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

Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?"
"By feeling things - too much, I suppose," Therese answered conscientiously. — Patricia Highsmith

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie! — Patricia Highsmith

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment? — Patricia Highsmith

I'm going to enjoy what I've got as long as it lasts. — Patricia Highsmith

Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity. — Patricia Highsmith

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

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. — Patricia Highsmith

I think friendships are the result of certain needs that can be completely hidden from both people, sometimes hidden forever. — Patricia Highsmith

Death was only one more adventure untried. — Patricia Highsmith

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable. — Patricia Highsmith

Everything human is alien to me. — Patricia Highsmith

Obsessions are the only things that matter. — Patricia Highsmith

Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'
'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too. — Patricia Highsmith

Nothing was true but the fatigue of life and the eternal disappointment. — Patricia Highsmith

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies. — Patricia Highsmith

What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow? — Patricia Highsmith

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. — Patricia Highsmith

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example. — Patricia Highsmith

Happiness was a little like flying, she thought, like being a kite. It depended on how much one let the string out. — Patricia Highsmith

Did the world always mete out just deserts? — Patricia Highsmith

Don't you know I love you?' Carol said. — Patricia Highsmith

She hated cleaning up after making something. — Patricia Highsmith

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial. — Patricia Highsmith

I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me. — Patricia Highsmith

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident. — Patricia Highsmith

I have no television - I hate it. — Patricia Highsmith

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing. — Patricia Highsmith

Carol was like a secret spreading through her. — Highsmith, Patricia

A rush of panic comforted him with its familiarity. — Patricia Highsmith

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. — Patricia Highsmith

At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything? — Patricia Highsmith

I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don't you think? — Patricia Highsmith

Look at it, like a rat,' she said. 'A portrait of Harge. — Patricia Highsmith

What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history. — Patricia Highsmith

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not. — Patricia Highsmith

A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout. — Patricia Highsmith

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

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

I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication. — Patricia Highsmith

Do you like her'
'Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God. — Patricia Highsmith

She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing. — Patricia Highsmith

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

The way to see the world was to see it drunk. Everything was created to be seen drunk. — Patricia Highsmith

My mistake was in telling a stranger my private business. — Patricia Highsmith

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

Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious. — Patricia Highsmith

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

He robs everyone — Patricia Highsmith

Kick me out, she thought. What was in or out? How did one kick out an emotion? — Patricia Highsmith

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things. — Patricia Highsmith

I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine. — Patricia Highsmith

She had the kind of face that must be seen in action to be attractive. — Patricia Highsmith

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not. — Patricia Highsmith

I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long. — Patricia Highsmith

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

There were many times when logic was of no comfort. — Patricia Highsmith

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. — Patricia Highsmith

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

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

The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. — Patricia Highsmith

My angel," Carold said. "Flung out of space. — Patricia Highsmith

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground. — Patricia Highsmith

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

The flowers you gave me - they died. — Patricia Highsmith

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways. — Patricia Highsmith

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else. — Patricia Highsmith

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart. — Patricia Highsmith

Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy. — Patricia Highsmith

I know that Southern redhead type, Bruno said, poking at his apple pie. — Patricia Highsmith

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. — Patricia Highsmith

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman. — Patricia Highsmith

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian. — Patricia Highsmith

Even the pearl at her earlobe looked alive, like a drop of water that a touch might destroy. — Patricia Highsmith

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

Though all we have known is only a beginning. — Patricia Highsmith

The justice I have received, I shall give back. — Patricia Highsmith

Therese could not think of a single question that would be proper to ask, because all her questions were so enormous. — Patricia Highsmith

I am the forever-seeking. — Patricia Highsmith

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it. — Patricia Highsmith

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

Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he? — Patricia Highsmith

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

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder! — Patricia Highsmith

What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said. — Patricia Highsmith

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her. — Patricia Highsmith

I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it. — Patricia Highsmith

I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me. — Patricia Highsmith

Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. — Patricia Highsmith

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week. — Patricia Highsmith

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

Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity. — Patricia Highsmith

I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them. — Patricia Highsmith

A classic is something with a human situation. — Patricia Highsmith

She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol? — Patricia Highsmith

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? — Patricia Highsmith

There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment. — Patricia Highsmith

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough. — Patricia Highsmith

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. — Patricia Highsmith