Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 [terms] | Bookmarker

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(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay / (adjective) not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply / (adjective) admitting of no contradiction / (adjective) expressive of urgency or command / (adjective) characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance / (adjective) indicative of a peremptory attitude or nature; haughty / (noun) a challenge (as of a juror) made as of right without assigning any cause

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replied my stepfather with didactic peremptoriness

—p.15 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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replied my stepfather with didactic peremptoriness

—p.15 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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(German for worldview) a particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group

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Possible basis for my weltanschauung. That the childishness is never lost, but adulthood put like a veneer over it.

—p.39 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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Possible basis for my weltanschauung. That the childishness is never lost, but adulthood put like a veneer over it.

—p.39 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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(adjective) tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy / (adjective) envious / (adjective) of an unpleasant or objectionable nature; obnoxious / (adjective) of a kind to cause harm or resentment

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If it is pleasant for a time, it is unpleasant eventually by our having to leave it soon, or by invidious comparison which all humans make with something better.

—p.185 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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If it is pleasant for a time, it is unpleasant eventually by our having to leave it soon, or by invidious comparison which all humans make with something better.

—p.185 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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deterioration or downfall

212

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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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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unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

244

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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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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referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way

284

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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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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(noun, Italian for light and dark) an oil painting technique developed during the Renaissance that uses strong tonal contrasts between light and dark to model three-dimensional forms

326

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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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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(noun) the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state before receiving outside impressions / (noun) something existing in its original pristine state (philosophy)

328

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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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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(verb) to give off or reflect light in bright beams or flashes; sparkle / (verb) to be brilliant or showy in technique or style

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I am a coruscating pinwheel of delight

—p.338 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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I am a coruscating pinwheel of delight

—p.338 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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(adjective) favorable to or promoting health or well-being

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Ideals wear away, and a mistress apart from home making wife becomes the most pleasant, salubrious, invigorating arrangement

—p.366 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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Ideals wear away, and a mistress apart from home making wife becomes the most pleasant, salubrious, invigorating arrangement

—p.366 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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