Originally posted by Platypus
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The author of psychothrillers like The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith ... chain-smoked Gauloises, and kept a bottle of vodka by her bedside, so she could have a snifter first thing ... As for friends, she had none, apart from 300 beloved pet snails, which she would take to literary parties in her handbag ... When she went abroad she would smuggle the live snails out of England by hiding them under her breasts.
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