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Quotes by "Patricia Highsmith"

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
— Patricia Highsmith
Tags: solitude, quiet, imagination, distractions, conversations
Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?' 'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.
— Patricia Highsmith The Price of Salt
Tags: unrequited-love, the-price-of-salt, starcrossed-lovers, patricia-highsmith, love, lesbian, in-love, impossible-love, forbidden-love, carol
Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh.
— Patricia Highsmith The Price of Salt
Tags: happiness
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
— Patricia Highsmith
Tags: which, communist, some, world
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
— Patricia Highsmith
Tags: interviews, i-think, making, think
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
Tags: telephone, want, dream, alone
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
— Patricia Highsmith
Tags: hang, seen, lady, know
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