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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything human is alien to me. - Patricia Highsmith
Everything human is alien to me.
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