Quotes by Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith

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

Art

Book

Dream

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

Anticipation

Pleasant

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.

Broken

Dark

New York

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.

Hands

Light

Self

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

Fall

Months

October

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

Argument

Book

Writing

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

Crime

Law

Men

Everything human is alien to me.

Aliens

Humans

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

Done

Justice

Umpires

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.

Blood

Cities

Venice

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Aliens

Answers

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Art

Blood

Blow

Book

Boring

Broken

California

Character

Children

Cities

Cleaning

Communication

Compliment

Country

Crime

Dark

Details

Directors

Done

Drawing

Dream

Easy

Eight

Ends

Example

Facts

Fall

Family Life

Feels

Film

Flower

Fool

Get Up

Giving

Giving Back

Guy

Hands

Hate

Heart

Hitchcock

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Quotes by Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith

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

Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

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

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

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

Everything human is alien to me.

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

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.

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