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tabula rasa
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995

Happy just as I was at nineteen. My brain is a tabula rasa—and life excites me.

—p.328 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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chiaroscuro

a discarded but upright Christmas tree that sits in a corner of the little lawn in my court. The chiaroscuro of its branches half covered with snow suggest the pen lines of an artist

—p.326 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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ineluctable

How prosaic to relate this experience, these importunate, irrevocable, ineluctable facts!

—p.244 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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labefaction

The lineaments of my face establish themselves in handsome sanity and complacency: inside is labefaction and imminent death.

—p.212 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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