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Thomas Harris quotes: Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis
Thomas Harris quotes: Barney did not reply. He looked at Krendler as though the left and right hemispheres of Krendler's brain were two dogs stuck together. Barney did not reply. He looked at Krendler as though the left and right hemispheres of Krendler's brain were two dogs stuck together.
Thomas Harris quotes: If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time. If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.
Thomas Harris quotes: I thank God for what happened," Verger said. "It was my salvation. Have you accepted Jesus, Miss Starling? Do you have faith? I thank God for what happened," Verger said. "It was my salvation. Have you accepted Jesus, Miss Starling? Do you have faith?
Thomas Harris quotes: Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving - Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -
Thomas Harris quotes: When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it. When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.
Thomas Harris quotes: He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart. He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.
Thomas Harris quotes: He follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement. He follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement.
Thomas Harris quotes: It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told. It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
Thomas Harris quotes: Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed. Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
Thomas Harris quotes: When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read, Clarice. Hannibal Lecter When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read, Clarice.
Hannibal Lecter
Thomas Harris quotes: The washing machine's rhythm was like a giant heartbeat, and the rush of its waters was what the unborn hear- our last memory of peace. The washing machine's rhythm was like a giant heartbeat, and the rush of its waters was what the unborn hear- our last memory of peace.
Thomas Harris quotes: Funerals often make us want sex - it's one in the eye for death. Funerals often make us want sex - it's one in the eye for death.
Thomas Harris quotes: There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us. There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
Thomas Harris quotes: There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named
the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
Thomas Harris quotes: It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
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. ... 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.
Thomas Harris quotes: I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head. I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.
Thomas Harris quotes: Nothing made me happen. I happened. Nothing made me happen. I happened.
Thomas Harris quotes: He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
Thomas Harris quotes: Variously weighted with lies, guns, and groceries, the three of them were a small and solemn troop. Variously weighted with lies, guns, and groceries, the three of them were a small and solemn troop.
Thomas Harris quotes: Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it? Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?
Thomas Harris quotes: He was alone because he was Unique. He was alone because he was Unique.
Thomas Harris quotes: You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home. You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
Thomas Harris quotes: Barney was nearly through with his workout, cooling down on a bike, when he realized he was not alone in the room. Barney was nearly through with his workout, cooling down on a bike, when he realized he was not alone in the room.
Thomas Harris quotes: On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife. On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.
Thomas Harris quotes: But when Krendler's volume became intrusive, Dr. Lecter retrieved his crossbow from a corner. But when Krendler's volume became intrusive, Dr. Lecter retrieved his crossbow from a corner.
Thomas Harris quotes: I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it. I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.
Thomas Harris quotes: When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help. When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
Thomas Harris quotes: Every person is worth your time, Hannibal. If at first appearance a person seems dull, then look harder, look into him. Every person is worth your time, Hannibal. If at first appearance a person seems dull, then look harder, look into him.
Thomas Harris quotes: He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.
Thomas Harris quotes: The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room. The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
Thomas Harris quotes: Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity. Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
Thomas Harris quotes: A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling. A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
Thomas Harris quotes: It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.
Thomas Harris quotes: One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind. One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
Thomas Harris quotes: The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted. The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
Thomas Harris quotes: In the 1980's, the Golden Age of Terrorism, procedures ... In the 1980's, the Golden Age of Terrorism, procedures ...
Thomas Harris quotes: Hello Clarice... Hello Clarice...
Thomas Harris quotes: They tried sodium amytal on him three years ago trying to find out where he buried a Princeton student," Graham said. "He gave them a recipe for dip. They tried sodium amytal on him three years ago trying to find out where he buried a Princeton student," Graham said. "He gave them a recipe for dip.
Thomas Harris quotes: WHEN STARLING was a child she moved from a clapboard house that groaned in the wind to the solid redbrick of the Lutheran Orphanage. WHEN STARLING was a child she moved from a clapboard house that groaned in the wind to the solid redbrick of the Lutheran Orphanage.
Thomas Harris quotes: Glistened on the rope, almost level now. Das Glistened on the rope, almost level now. Das
Thomas Harris quotes: A week later he was working for the Tattler. A week later he was working for the Tattler.
Thomas Harris quotes: It was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring. It was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.
Thomas Harris quotes: Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling.
Thomas Harris quotes: Starling looked at Crawford steadily, but she was too still. "Hannibal the Cannibal," she said. Starling looked at Crawford steadily, but she was too still. "Hannibal the Cannibal," she said.
Thomas Harris quotes: Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll. Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.
Thomas Harris quotes: I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell. I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.
Thomas Harris quotes: You would think such a day would tremble to begin ... You would think such a day would tremble to begin ...
Thomas Harris quotes: She was charming way a cub is charming, a small cub that will grow up to be like one of the big cats. One you can't play with later She was charming way a cub is charming, a small cub that will grow up to be like one of the big cats. One you can't play with later
Thomas Harris quotes: The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion. The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.
Thomas Harris quotes: Silence can mock. Silence can mock.
Thomas Harris quotes: Flog no one else with meat. Flog no one else with meat.
Thomas Harris quotes: Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry ... and he's a mass murderer. Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry ... and he's a mass murderer.
Thomas Harris quotes: Which do you think, Commendatore? Bowels in or out? Which do you think, Commendatore? Bowels in or out?
Thomas Harris quotes: When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me. When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me.
Thomas Harris quotes: I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
Thomas Harris quotes: I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife - Hannibal Lecter I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife - Hannibal Lecter
Thomas Harris quotes: The world will not be this way within the reach of my arm. The world will not be this way within the reach of my arm.
Thomas Harris quotes: 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? 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?
Thomas Harris quotes: Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears. Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
Thomas Harris quotes: Spoken like a Protestant. Spoken like a Protestant.
Thomas Harris quotes: I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you. I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
Thomas Harris quotes: Was that job offer you worked into the blessing? I never saw such tact. Was that job offer you worked into the blessing? I never saw such tact.
Thomas Harris quotes: Sanity and apparent rationality are not the same, comrade. Sanity and apparent rationality are not the same, comrade.
Thomas Harris quotes: Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
Thomas Harris quotes: Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia. Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.
Thomas Harris quotes: Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night. Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.
Thomas Harris quotes: You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you? You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you?
Thomas Harris quotes: Fear comes from the imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price for imagination Fear comes from the imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price for imagination
Thomas Harris quotes: HOW DO you behave when you know the conventional honors are dross? HOW DO you behave when you know the conventional honors are dross?
Thomas Harris quotes: The enemy inside Graham agreed with any accusation. The enemy inside Graham agreed with any accusation.
Thomas Harris quotes: Killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?''Willy, it's one of the ugliest things in the world. Killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?'
'Willy, it's one of the ugliest things in the world.
Thomas Harris quotes: He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup. He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.
Thomas Harris quotes: I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
Thomas Harris quotes: You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it. You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.
Thomas Harris quotes: When the fox hears a rabbit scream, he comes running, but not to help. When the fox hears a rabbit scream, he comes running, but not to help.
Thomas Harris quotes: This was a holiday and killing Grentz was preferable to skiing. The This was a holiday and killing Grentz was preferable to skiing. The
Thomas Harris quotes: Baby needs a new pair of shoes,' he said. 'My baby doesn't need any shoes. Baby needs a new pair of shoes,' he said. 'My baby doesn't need any shoes.
Thomas Harris quotes: The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you. The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.
Thomas Harris quotes: I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me. I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
Thomas Harris quotes: 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. 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.
Thomas Harris quotes: Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it. Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas Harris quotes: If he really Loved Grandmother, he should be the thing to be afraid of in the dark. If he really Loved Grandmother, he should be the thing to be afraid of in the dark.
Thomas Harris quotes: I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me. I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
Thomas Harris quotes: I say what I mean. Would you like it better if I said 'I'm glad you find me so.' That would be a little fancier, and equally true. I say what I mean. Would you like it better if I said 'I'm glad you find me so.' That would be a little fancier, and equally true.
Thomas Harris quotes: We can only learn so much and live. We can only learn so much and live.
Thomas Harris quotes: I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice. I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
Thomas Harris quotes: I am the dragon, and you call me insane. I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
Thomas Harris quotes: The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
Thomas Harris quotes: You didn't draw a freak. You drew a man with a freak on his back. Nothing wrong with you, kid. You didn't draw a freak. You drew a man with a freak on his back. Nothing wrong with you, kid.
Thomas Harris quotes: It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw. It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
Thomas Harris quotes: Because it's his bad luck to be the best. Because it's his bad luck to be the best.
Thomas Harris quotes: Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm. Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
Thomas Harris quotes: He was a person who agreed with everything his victim said before he killed him. He was a person who agreed with everything his victim said before he killed him.
Thomas Harris quotes: Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences. Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.
Thomas Harris quotes: When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can. When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
Thomas Harris quotes: Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time. Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
Thomas Harris quotes: Dr. Lecter took off Krendler's runner's headband as you would remove the rubber band from a tin of caviar. Dr. Lecter took off Krendler's runner's headband as you would remove the rubber band from a tin of caviar.
Thomas Harris quotes: Death and danger do not have to come with trappings. Death and danger do not have to come with trappings.

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