"My New Yearâ€™s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle â€” may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)"

-- Patricia Highsmith

#New Year Quotes #Memories Quotes #Real Quotes

“Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.”
“Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it.”
“You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.”
“John Wooden would say never mistake activity for achievement. Sometimes we think we're really doing well on a given day. But 'What did you accomplish?' is the question that we should really be asking not 'What did we do?'”
“You're much shorter than my mom." "Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle. "That's no way to talk to a vampire." "Bloodsucking brat." "Better" he said.”
“I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.”
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
“There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.”

Source : Agnes Smedley (1975). “Battle Hymn of China”

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