Patricia Highsmith Quotes

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Quiet People, Communication, Imagination

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• 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

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• Mi brindis de Nochevieja: por todos los demonios, las lujurias, las pasiones, las codicias, las envidias, los amores, los odios, los deseos extraños, los enemigos fantasmales y reales, el ejército de los recuerdos, con los que lucho - que nunca me den la paz. (Nochevieja, 1947)

  Patricia Highsmith

  New Year, Memories, Hate

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Sueño, Arte, Libro

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Heart, Long, Understanding

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• Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Honesty, Worst, Policy

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• Everything human is alien to me.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Aliens, Humans

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  People, Littles, Murder

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• 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

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

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• Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Men, Law, Crime

  Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Umpires, Justice, Done

  "The talented Ms Highsmith", www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2000.

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Book, Writing, Argument

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• One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Murder, Togetherness, Family Life

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• 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

  Dream, Numbers, Want

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Sexo, Pensamiento, Gente

  Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.82, She Winked Press

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• The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Night, Drawing, Affinity

  Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Me encantaría hacer una novela sobre un personaje anormal que viera la vida actual, una vida muy ordinaria, pero que a través de ella captara la anormalidad, hasta que al final el lector viera, y con poca reticencia, que no es anormal en absoluto, y que el protagonista bien podría ser él mismo.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Character, Ordinary, Abnormal

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• 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

  Mistake, Outlook On Life, People

  Patricia Highsmith (2008). “The Talented Mr. Ripley”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Memories, Men, Two

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• 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

  Sleep, Views, Facts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Flower, White, People

  Patricia Highsmith (2011). “The Price of Salt”, p.206, She Winked Press

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• Pero había demasiados puntos en los que el otro yo podía invadir el yo que él quería preservar, y había demasiadas formas de invasión: ciertas palabras, sonidos, luces, acciones que realizaban sus manos o sus pies, y si no hacía nada en absoluto, no oía ni veía nada, el grito de alguna voz interior triunfante que le escandalizaba y le acobardaba.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Light, Self, Hands

  Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Mañana, Noche, Dos

  Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.221, She Winked Press

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• Amaba las posesiones, no en masa, sino unas pocas de las que no se desprendía. No la ostentación, sino la calidad, y el amor que apreciaba la calidad. Las posesiones le recordaban que existía y le hacían disfrutar de su existencia. Así de sencillo. ¿Y eso no valía algo? Existía.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Simple, Men, Self

  "The Talented Mr. Ripley".

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• I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Passion, Justice, Boring

  "The talented Ms Highsmith", www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2000.

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