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The justice I have received, ...

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

He liked the fact that Venice ...

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 73 quotes

Perhaps it was freedom itself ...

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

They were not friends. They di...

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 mor

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

What was it to love someone, w...

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 73 quotes

My imagination functions much ...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

I didn't hang around films. I ...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

But there was not a moment whe...

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 73 quotes

Dusk was falling quickly. It w...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

I should love to do a novel, a...

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

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

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

Then Carol slipped her arm und...

Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

And no book, and possibly no p...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

The conversation seemed just a...

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 c...

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

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

The first person you should th...

The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publisher and the readers can and will come later.

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

Life is a long failure of unde...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

Each book is, in a sense, an a...

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

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

My New Year's Eve Toast: to al...

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 Ђ' may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)

Patricia Highsmith 73 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....