Thomas Harris Quotes
… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.
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The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers.
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My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.
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I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.
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I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.
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… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
