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Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.

Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.
– Patricia Highsmith

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  3. Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart. – Patricia Highsmith
  4. One situation -“ maybe one alone -“ could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness. – Patricia Highsmith
  5. I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them. – Patricia Highsmith
  6. I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long. – Patricia Highsmith
  7. one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill. – Patricia Highsmith
  8. I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else. – Patricia Highsmith
  9. What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? – Patricia Highsmith
  10. I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me. – Patricia Highsmith
  11. And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect. – Patricia Highsmith
  12. My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people. – Patricia Highsmith
  13. I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication. – Patricia Highsmith
  14. I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think? – Patricia Highsmith
  15. Obsessions are the only things that matter. – Patricia Highsmith
  16. He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room. – Patricia Highsmith
  17. He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room. – Patricia Highsmith
  18. Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable. – Patricia Highsmith
  19. The justice I have received, I shall give back. – Patricia Highsmith
  20. What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow? – Patricia Highsmith
  21. Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he? – Patricia Highsmith
  22. Honestly, I don’t understand why people get so worked up about a little murder! – Patricia Highsmith
  23. He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life. – Ken Follett
  24. Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. – Philip Caputo
  25. All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war. – David Burr Gerrard
  26. A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp. – Joan Rivers
  27. Everyone, at nineteen, is dumb and beautiful in equal parts… – Raphael Kadushin
  28. And with a frenzied, frightened, anxious heart, she tumbled headfirst into the life she was destined to live.- Future – Abby Rosmarin
  29. Life is a series of such moments. And making each one matter means you’re living your life to the fullest. – Lidiya K
  30. Any man’s life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature. – Richard Brookhiser
  31. Carol was like a secret spreading through her. – Highsmith
  32. Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams. – Jim Highsmith
  33. The worst feelings are the warm, anxious burning that portends your heart breaking followed by the wave of numbness that asphyxiates your soul. – Ken Poirot
  34. As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. – Boris Pasternak
  35. Adults are taught to be anxious about not having enough sex while teenagers are shamed for wanting to have it all the time. – Catherine Lacey
  36. No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. – Simone de Beauvoir
  37. I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss. – Oscar Wilde
  38. I’m going to stay a little uptight and anxious. – Katie Heaney
  39. Children make theories when they are confused or anxious. – Sherry Turkle
  40. I always feel anxious if anyone’s close to uncovering my secrets. – Carla H Krueger

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