Patricia Highsmith quotes - page 2

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. (Patricia Highsmith)
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies. View quote
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That 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 apartment. View quote
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I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly. View quote
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But when they kissed goodnight in bed, Therese felt their sudden release, that leap of response in both of them, as if their bodies were of some materials which put together inevitably created desire. View quote
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What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history. View quote
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I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me. View quote
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Obsessions are the only things that matter. View quote
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It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. View quote
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Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. View quote
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And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect. (Patricia Highsmith)
She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol? View quote
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. View quote
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground. View quote
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I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week. View quote
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. View quote
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake. View quote
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I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife. View quote
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I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things. View quote
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Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable. View quote
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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)