Patricia HighsmithI know you have it in you, Guy, Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, the capacity to be terribly happy.361Thought
Patricia HighsmithI think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways. ✨ Patricia Highsmith (2015). The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition), p.82, … ▶361HumanityThought
Patricia HighsmithI can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.373Reading
Patricia HighsmithThat 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 apar… ▶374LifeReading
Patricia HighsmithI 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.331Time
Patricia HighsmithThe night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. ✨ Patricia Highsmith (2001). Strangers on a Train, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company354Time
Patricia HighsmithI 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 screenwriter365Politics
Patricia HighsmithI didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.377Philosophy
Patricia HighsmithI think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches366Thought
Patricia HighsmithHow 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 ev… ▶379Love
Patricia HighsmithHe 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 qua… ▶379LifeLoveThought
Patricia HighsmithHow easy it was to lie when one had to lie!379Time
Patricia HighsmithMy imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.305Humanity
Patricia HighsmithOne situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.295Life
Patricia HighsmithI prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.251Reading
Patricia HighsmithMy 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 … ▶3310Love
Patricia HighsmithHonesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.285Truth
Patricia HighsmithBut 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 … ▶253HopeThoughtTime
Patricia HighsmithHe 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… ▶308HumanityThoughtTruth
Patricia HighsmithIf people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies286Humanity
Patricia HighsmithThen 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… ▶309DeathHumanityReading
Patricia HighsmithFor neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not. ✨ The talented Ms Highsmith, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2000.265Life
Patricia HighsmithI find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial. ✨ The talented Ms Highsmith, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2000.222Love
Patricia HighsmithWhat 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 (2015). The… ▶266Love
Patricia HighsmithRobert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother267Humor
Patricia HighsmithI have no television - I hate it.267Life
Patricia Highsmithone blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.257Time
Patricia HighsmithThe justice I have received, I shall give back. ✨ Patricia Highsmith (1971). The glass cell257Life
Patricia HighsmithJanuary. 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 mo… ▶247HumanityTime
Patricia HighsmithHonestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!214HumanityTruth
