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Patricia Highsmith Quotes

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

Patricia Highsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995

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Car Know Car Accident Only Been Had

My daughter wrote a book called 'Kelly Tough' when she was 19 years old. It's a must-read.

Daughter Book Tough She Old Years

Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.

War Legacy Think Impact Fighting

The fact is, there's good people everywhere. That's what I try and show in my stand-up: good people everywhere. All it takes is one person to mess it up.

Good People Good People Person Try

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

Politics Go Will Way Everyone Agree

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

You Pig Go Out Sausage Come

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.

Home Border Back Burden Will Mexico

I felt like I've needed to ask my parents up until about four years ago about everything. They have helped me tremendously, I came out of college with no debt. Everything they made, they just poured into my education.

Education Parents College Me Debt

Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

Music World You Look Kind Anything

You don't have to be Einstein to see that horse racing is dangerous. Those two ambulances driving behind you aren't there for the scenery. I will never get over the fatalities of colleagues. It is the saddest and toughest part of this sport.

Colleagues Scenery Driving Horse You

I am patient zero.

I Am Patient Zero Am

The global 'currency wars' are likely here to stay due to the fine line between legitimate monetary balancing and sometimes self-serving trade manipulation. But these artificial mechanisms lack tangible or lasting value.

Value Sometimes Manipulation Line

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Me Growing Up Writing Process More

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