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
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder! - Patricia Highsmith
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
- Patricia Highsmith
Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough. - Patricia Highsmith
Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.
Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her. - Patricia Highsmith
Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not. - Patricia Highsmith
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable. - Patricia Highsmith
Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it. - Patricia Highsmith
And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.
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
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.
Everything human is alien to me. - Patricia Highsmith
Everything human is alien to me.
Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart. - Patricia Highsmith
Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.
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