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01Undated

Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?""By feeling things - too much, I suppose," Therese answered conscientiously.

Patricia Highsmith / quote

02Undated

Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.

Patricia Highsmith / quote

03Undated

She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?

Patricia Highsmith / quote

04Undated

Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?''Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.

Patricia Highsmith / quote

05Undated

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

Patricia Highsmith / quote

06Undated

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

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