Thomas Harris Quotes
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
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The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
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Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
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The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.
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Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.
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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
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Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
