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> [I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-hope-it-will-be-set-in-california-in-a-way-i-made-a-mistake-because/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

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## More by Patricia Highsmith

> [“Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothing in his mind but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/thinking-no-more-about-it-he-stepped-off-into-that-cool-space-that/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-didn-t-hang-around-films-i-don-t-know-if-i-d-ever-seen-hitchcock-s/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-feel-i-stand-in-a-desert-with-my-hands-outstretched-and-you-are/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/one-situation-maybe-one-alone-could-drive-me-to-murder-family-life/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [“He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/he-felt-he-was-about-to-experience-again-some-ancient-delicious/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [“It was a kind of arrogance, perhaps, to believe so in one's destiny. But, on the other hand, who could be more genuinely humble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/it-was-a-kind-of-arrogance-perhaps-to-believe-so-in-one-s-destiny-but/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-should-love-to-do-a-novel-about-one-abnormal-character-seeing/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-don-t-set-the-alarm-to-get-up-i-get-up-when-i-feel-like-it/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [“Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/dusk-was-falling-quickly-it-was-just-after-7-p-m-and-the-month-was/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/what-chance-combination-of-shadow-and-sound-and-his-own-thoughts-had/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale-white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/happiness-was-like-a-green-vine-spreading-through-her-stretching-fine/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [“That's exactly where you're wrong! Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament! People get so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/that-s-exactly-where-you-re-wrong-any-kind-of-person-can-murder/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/what-was-it-to-love-someone-what-was-love-exactly-and-why-did-it-end/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/it-always-gets-late-with-you-is-that-a-compliment/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

> [“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/writing-is-a-craft-and-needs-constant-practice/)

[Patricia Highsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patricia-highsmith/)

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