Patricia Highsmith Quotes - Page 2

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• I have no television - I hate it.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Hate, Television, I Hate

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• 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

  Real, Answers, Ends

  Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.204, She Winked Press

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Anticipation, Pleasant

  Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.

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• It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

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  Compliment, Late

  Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.136, She Winked Press

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• The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Kissing, World, Parks

  Patricia Highsmith (2014). “Nothing that Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.113, Hachette UK

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Thinking, Interviews, Speech

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• They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.

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  Past, People, Realization

  Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Writing, House, Cleaning

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• 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

  Silence, Guy, Ends

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• Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

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  Patricia Highsmith (2011). “The Price of Salt”, p.189, She Winked Press

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• I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter

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  New York, California, Progress

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Country, Italian, Quiet

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• The justice I have received, I shall give back.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Giving, Justice, Giving Back

  Patricia Highsmith (1971). “The glass cell”

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• 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

  Children, Blow, Eight

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• How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

  Patricia Highsmith

  Lying, Easy

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• I don`t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Alarms, Get Up, Feels

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• I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

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  Directors, Want, Movie Director

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

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  Fall, Months, October

  Patricia Highsmith (1975). “A Dog's Ransom”, Penguin Books Limited

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• That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment

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  Book, Pay, Fool

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• He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.

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  Blood, Cities, Venice

  Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.

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• But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million shimmering leaves.

  Patricia Highsmith

  New York, Dark, Broken

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

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  Example, Details, Boring

  Patricia Highsmith (2001). “People Who Knock on the Door”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Film, Hitchcock, Knows

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Writing, Aggravation, People

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Mother, Humor, Affection

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