They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.
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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