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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
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Patricia Highsmith's Popular Quotes

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

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Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

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Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

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Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

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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.

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And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

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Everything human is alien to me.

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Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

- Patricia Highsmith
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