My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. - Patricia Highsmith - Quotesmemo.com

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Patricia Highsmith

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

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

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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

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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 can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

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I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

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Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

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