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    Patricia Highsmith

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    That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment. ↗


    — Patricia Highsmith

    #apartment #bad #behind #book #earn

    I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week. ↗


    — Patricia Highsmith

    #day #days #five #four #hours

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


    — Patricia Highsmith

    #else #even #house #i #someone

    I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial. ↗


    — Patricia Highsmith

    #boring #find #i #justice #passion

    I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. ↗


    — Patricia Highsmith

    #granting #i #i think #interviews #making






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    Michael Dirda observed "Europeans honored her as a psychological novelist part of an existentialist tradition represented by her own favorite writers in particular Dostoevsky Conrad Kafka Gide and Camus. "I could never penetrate how any human being could be that relentlessly ugly. Her last novel Small g: a Summer Idyll was publiPatricia Highsmithd posthumously a month later.

    Although Patricia Highsmith wrote specifically in the genre of crime fiction her books have been lauded by various writers and critics as being artistic and thoughtful enough to rival mainstream literature. ". Michael Dirda observed "Europeans honored her as a psychological novelist part of an existentialist tradition represented by her own favorite writers in particular Dostoevsky Conrad Kafka Gide and Camus.

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