Patricia Highsmith Quotes

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Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. 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 flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered

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He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.

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The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

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I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

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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 comparison to the still peace at their lips.

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The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

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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 happy.

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Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

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Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

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