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I can't write if someone else...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

My New Year’s Eve Toast: to a...

My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

The conversation seemed just ...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

The kiss became the narrowed ...

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 73 quotes

I think people often try to f...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

He loved possessions, not mas...

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn' t that worth something? He existed.

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

When I am thickening my plots...

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

This is what I like, sitting ...

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

I don`t set the alarm to get ...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

That wasn't a bad price for a...

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 73 quotes

I like to work for four or fi...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

Robert Walker as Bruno was ex...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

Ripley is married. And he's n...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

I don't want to know movie di...

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 73 quotes

I hope it will be set in Cali...

I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

I prefer to live in the count...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

I have Graham Greene's teleph...

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 73 quotes

I only know it takes weeks to...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

I think J.D. Salinger is corr...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

The justice I have received, ...

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

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