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Patricia Highsmith

"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."

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"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."

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"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."

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"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"

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"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."

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"And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing."

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"Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun."

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"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

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"A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake."
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"Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother."
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"I have no television - I hate it."
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"I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes."
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"I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian."
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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 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."
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"Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten."
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