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# Patricia Highsmith

(1921–1995)   Writer   United States

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Patricia Highsmith was a writer from the United States, best known for *The Price of Salt*.

## Quick Facts About Patricia Highsmith

Born January 19, 1921

Died February 4, 1995

Nationality United States

Profession Writer

Notable works The Price of Salt

Known for Ripley Under Ground, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Cry of the Owl, The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Ripley Under Water

## About Patricia Highsmith

She is best known for her psychological thrillers, especially a five‑book series about the charming but criminal Tom Ripley. Her writing career lasted almost fifty years, and more than two dozen of her books have been turned into movies. Highsmith’s work shows the influence of existentialist literature and often explores questions of identity and popular morality. Graham Greene once called her "the poet of apprehension".

## Awards & Honors

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière Prix de l'Humour noir Officer of Arts and Letters Lucien Barrière Literary Award

##  Quotes by Patricia Highsmith · Page 3

> [Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/anticipation-it-occurred-to-him-that-his-anticipation-was-more/)

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> [I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-hated-cracking-the-whip-and-these-juries-turn-into-political-things/)

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[Cracking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cracking/)

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> [I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-only-know-it-takes-weeks-to-recover-as-if-one-had-been-in-a-car/)

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[Accident](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accident/)

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> [“A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/a-terrible-silence-fell-in-the-room-bill-ireton-looked-suddenly-sober/)

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> [“He realised what a horrible mistake, crime even, he had been guilty of in demanding such a barbaric thing as a girl’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/he-realised-what-a-horrible-mistake-crime-even-he-had-been-guilty-of/)

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[Crime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crime/)

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> [I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-think-j-d-salinger-is-correct-in-granting-no-interviews-and-in/)

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[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

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> [I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-know-you-have-it-in-you-guy-anne-said-suddenly-at-the-end-of-a/)

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> [My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/my-imagination-functions-much-better-when-i-don-t-have-to-speak-to/)

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[Creativity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creativity/)

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> [“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/my-new-year-s-eve-toast-to-all-the-devils-lusts-passions-greeds/)

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[Memories](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/memories/)

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> [“Mr Greenleaf was such a decent fellow himself, he took it for granted that everybody else in the world was decent, too.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/mr-greenleaf-was-such-a-decent-fellow-himself-he-took-it-for-granted/)

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> [My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/my-new-year-s-eve-toast-to-all-the-devils-lusts-passions-greeds-2/)

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[Army](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/army/)

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

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> [“The anxiety has always been within himself, a battle of himself against himself, so tortuous he might have welcomed the law's intervention.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/the-anxiety-has-always-been-within-himself-a-battle-of-himself/)

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> [“The tragedy was not even the first drink, because the first drink was not the first resort but the last. There’d had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/the-tragedy-was-not-even-the-first-drink-because-the-first-drink-was/)

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> [God does not give us more than we can handle in life; it's how we process things that make them seem more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/god-does-not-give-us-more-than-we-can-handle-in-life-it-s-how-we/)

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

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> [He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/he-loved-possessions-not-masses-of-them-but-a-select-few-that-he-did/)

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> [The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/the-night-was-a-time-for-bestial-affinities-for-drawing-closer-to/)

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[Affinity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affinity/)

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> [For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/for-neither-life-nor-nature-cares-if-justice-is-ever-done-or-not/)

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> [If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/if-people-have-bought-something-of-mine-they-know-by-now-that-i-will/)

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> [“Do you like her' ''Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/do-you-like-her-of-course-what-a-question-like-asking-her-if-she/)

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> [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/)

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> [“Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/her-life-was-a-series-of-zigzags-at-nineteen-she-was-anxious/)

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[Anxious](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anxious/)

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> [“She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/she-wished-the-tunnel-might-cave-in-and-kill-them-both-that-their/)

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> [“The dusky and faintly sweet smell of her perfume came to Therese again, a smell suggestive of dark green silk, that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/the-dusky-and-faintly-sweet-smell-of-her-perfume-came-to-therese/)

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> [I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-was-in-new-york-hitchcock-was-in-california-he-rang-me-to-make-a/)

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> [The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/the-kiss-became-the-narrowed-center-of-the-still-point-of-the-turning/)

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[Comparison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comparison/)

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> [In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/in-view-of-the-fact-that-i-surround-myself-with-numbskulls-now-i/)

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[Facts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/facts/)

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

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[Flower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flower/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/i-hope-it-will-be-set-in-california-in-a-way-i-made-a-mistake-because/)

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> [“Vic didn’t mind at all being considered odd. In fact, he was proud of it in a country in which most people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/vic-didn-t-mind-at-all-being-considered-odd-in-fact-he-was-proud-of/)

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> [“He remembered deciding then that the world was full of Simon Legrees, and that you had to be an animal, as tough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/he-remembered-deciding-then-that-the-world-was-full-of-simon-legrees/)

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> [“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/an-artist-does-things-naturally-without-effort-some-power-guides-his/)

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> [This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/this-is-what-i-like-sitting-at-a-table-and-watching-people-go-by-it/)

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> [“And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-highsmith/and-everything-was-made-of-paper-sentences-pardons-pleas-bad-records/)

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