Thomas Harris Quotes
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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.
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We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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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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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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When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.
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The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.
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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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Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.
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Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.
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Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.
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What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.
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Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
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There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
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I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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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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You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
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He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.
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I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
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The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
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Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.