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

I think I have suffered a minor relapse this week. I am profoundly and nervously exhausted, eager for the nepenthe of alcohol of an evening if I have a friend to share it with.

—p.488 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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I think I have suffered a minor relapse this week. I am profoundly and nervously exhausted, eager for the nepenthe of alcohol of an evening if I have a friend to share it with.

—p.488 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith

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a domineering, violent, or bad-tempered woman

600

Like a virago, she blames me

—p.600 1951–1962: Living Between the United States and Europe (503) by Patricia Highsmith

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Like a virago, she blames me

—p.600 1951–1962: Living Between the United States and Europe (503) by Patricia Highsmith

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(adjective) marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose / (adjective) not connected with the main subject / (adjective) disappointing in progress, performance, or quality

652

He was also carrying on a desultory conversation with someone on the other end of the telephone

—p.652 1951–1962: Living Between the United States and Europe (503) by Patricia Highsmith

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He was also carrying on a desultory conversation with someone on the other end of the telephone

—p.652 1951–1962: Living Between the United States and Europe (503) by Patricia Highsmith

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(noun) a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested / (noun) temporary inactivity; suspension

675

I am in a state of cowed abeyance, like someone who has been whipped—or laid low after pride.

—p.675 1951–1962: Living Between the United States and Europe (503) by Patricia Highsmith

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I am in a state of cowed abeyance, like someone who has been whipped—or laid low after pride.

—p.675 1951–1962: Living Between the United States and Europe (503) by Patricia Highsmith

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(noun) a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse / (noun) a break in the flow of sound in a verse caused by the ending of a word within a foot / (noun) break interruption / (noun) a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody

680

A time of abeyance for me, I have had small ones before, but none so long or profound as this. A caesura in my life.

—p.680 1951–1962: Living Between the United States and Europe (503) by Patricia Highsmith

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A time of abeyance for me, I have had small ones before, but none so long or profound as this. A caesura in my life.

—p.680 1951–1962: Living Between the United States and Europe (503) by Patricia Highsmith

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naturally accompanying or associated

716

Yet I can never believe, unless I’m under the influence of drugs, that quarrels are a natural concomitant of the state of being in love or of loving