Thomas Harris Quotes
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You cant reduce me to a set of influences.
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Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
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Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
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Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
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But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.
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I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
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In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
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Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
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We can only learn so much and live.
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Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
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I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
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Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.
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Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
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It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
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Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
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When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
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Allegra Pazzi: Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter? Hannibal Lecter: Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?
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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
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Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.
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Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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