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Patricia Highsmith Quotes

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Patricia Highsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Alone Dream Want Telephone Out Seek

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Relationship People Black Think Same

I'm light and airy.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

Creativity People Believe Mean Going

We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.

Life Confident Environment Earth

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

Life Someone Celebrity Years Average

Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too.

Jonathan Krisel

I Am Utopia Portland Favorite Would

I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.

Love Time Acting Sometimes Hand Try

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

Cry Kid Losses Would Like Pout

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Work Change Politics Think Political

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

Fight Impossible Fighting America

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

William Shatner

Ideas World Think Information Know

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

Mature Same Kids Other Did Disabled

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