Thomas Harris Quotes
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It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin.
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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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It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
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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 would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.
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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?
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I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.
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In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?
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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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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
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Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
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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.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
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Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.