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Patricia Highsmith quotes

American Novelist January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995

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Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothing in his mind but a memory of a curve of her shoulder, naked, as he had never seen it. Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith quote: "The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing..."
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith quote: "Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and..."
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. Patricia Highsmith
He remembered that right after that, he had stolen a loaf of bread from a delicatessen counter and had taken it home and devoured it, feeling that the world owed a loaf of bread to him, and more. Patricia Highsmith
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. Patricia Highsmith
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. Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith quote: "If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that..."
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies. Patricia Highsmith
Just what did happen to a corpse under water for four, five years, even three? the tarpaulin or canvas would rot, perhaps more than half of it would disappear; the stones would likely have fallen out, therefore, enabling the corpse to drift more easily, even rise a little, provided any flesh was left. But wasn't rising due to bloating? Tom thought of the word maceration, the flaking off in layers of the outer skin. Then what? The nibbling of fish? Or wouldn't the current have removed pieces... Patricia Highsmith
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. Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith quote: "Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about..."
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder! Patricia Highsmith
In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days ? Franz Kafka. Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith quote: "I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen..."
I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian. Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith quote: "I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven..."
I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week. Patricia Highsmith
Tom laughed at the phrase "sexual deviation." Where was the sex? Where was the deviation? He looked at Freddie and said low and bitterly: "Freddie Miles, you're a victim of your own dirty mind. Patricia Highsmith
He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and the drum-and-cymbal crash brought almost to the margin of his grasp. Patricia Highsmith

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