Author: Patricia Highsmith

Cites

• Oscar Wilde (2)
  • IN: Ripley Under Ground (1970) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I think I would more readily die for what I do not believe in than for what I hold to be true... Sometimes I think that the artistic life is a long and lovely suicide, and I am not sorry that it is so.
    FROM: Personal Letters, (1886), Book, Ireland
  • IN: Under Ground (1970) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I think I would more readily die for what I do not believe in than for what I hold to be true... Sometimes I think that the artistic life is a long and lovely suicide, and I am not sorry that it is so.
    FROM: in his personal letters, (1886), Letter, Ireland
• Søren Kierkegaard (1)
  • IN: A Game for the Living (1958) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Faith has taken all chances into account... if you are willing to understand that you must love, then is your love eternally secure.
    FROM: Works of Love, (1847), Book, Denmark