QUOTES by Thomas Harris
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The emperor counsels simplicity. First principles. Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its causal nature?
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Almost every place has a moment of the day, an angle and intensity of light, in which it looks its best. When you're stuck someplace, you learn that time and you look forward to it.
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The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.
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Pachelbel’s Canon filled the sun-drowned room where they learned each other and even then the fear flickered across him like an osprey’s shadow: This is too good to live for long.
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Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.
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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 -
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You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.
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Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
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In the Green Machine there is no mercy; we make mercy, manufacture it in parts that have overgrown our basic reptile brain. There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
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It's hard to have anything, isn't it? Rare yo get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
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You didn’t draw a freak. You drew a man with a freak on his back. Nothing wrong with you, kid.
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He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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Dr. Doemling, does he want to fuck her or kill her, or eat her, or what?' Mason asked, exhausting the possibilities he could see. 'Probably all three,' Dr. Doemling said.
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We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum.
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Every person is worth your time, Hannibal. If at first appearance a person seems dull, then look harder, look into him.
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He could see that he had too many flowers in the room, and must add more to make it come back right again. Too many flowers was too many, but way too many was just right.
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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
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... 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.
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It's hard and ugly to know someone can understand you without even liking you.
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We don't begin to covet with imagined things. Coveting is a very literal sin–we begin to covet with tangibles, we begin with what we see every day.
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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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It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.
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She wanted to go inside. She wanted to go in, wanting it as we want to jump from balconies, as the glint of the rails tempts us when we hear the approaching train.
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He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.
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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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Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.
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The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.
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He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him.
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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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It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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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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I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.
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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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Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
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