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happy days lead to stagnation of the mind

6/18/44

Note here: Happy days lead to stagnation of the mind. Happy days even in my opinion, reading, writing, drawing. Nothing has come in the way of ideas in the last two happy days. I used to think such days produced ideas. Now I wonder if frequent disturbance isn’t necessary.

—p.312 Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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art is a stone-faced mountain

4/29/44

Art is a stone-faced mountain that we attack again and again, always to be thrown back. We sit long minutes on a rock and look at the mountain with chin in hand, rally ourselves, and attack once more. We break first our noses, then our heads and then our hearts, but our way is in this di…

—p.310 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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I am lonely in the evenings

4/2/44

I am lonely in the evenings, when the dusk invades my room, so politely, so subtly inviting me to do the things one cannot do alone. Sometimes the desire is in my arms only, and they are hungry like the stomach is hungry, for the solid embrace. Sometimes the desire is in my lips only and …

—p.304 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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ribald

God showed a ribald sense of humor when he created the physical body.

—p.284 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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this core remains forever untouched advice/writing

10/16/43

Every artist possesses a core—and this core remains forever untouched. Untouched by the lover and the beloved. However much you may love a woman, she can never enter.

—p.272 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith