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Inspirational Quotes by Patricia Highsmith
- Everything human is alien to me.
- I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
- I have no television - I hate it.
- If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies
- I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
- For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
- I don`t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
- I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
- How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!
- Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.
- Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
- The justice I have received, I shall give back.
- It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?
- Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.
- What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who…
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