Thomas Harris Quotes
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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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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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It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin.
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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 would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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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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I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
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It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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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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I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.
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What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.
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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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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's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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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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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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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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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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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.