\'My New Year\'s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, Strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace\' Patricia Highsmith (New Year\'s Eve, 1947) Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train , Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern wri. \'My New Year\'s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, Strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace\' Patricia Highsmith (New Year\'s Eve, 1947) Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train , Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern wri