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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Thomas Harris

Vanity, Intellectual, Appeals

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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.

Thomas Harris

People, Enemy, Making Friends

Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.301, Penguin

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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

Planets, Damn, Slippery

Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.167, Penguin

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Allegra Pazzi: Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter?

Hannibal Lecter: Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?

Thomas Harris

Believe, Men, Thinking

"Fictional characters: Allegra Pazzi, Hannibal Lecter". "Hannibal", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

Thomas Harris

Swans, Typhoid, Starlings

Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, Macmillan

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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.

Thomas Harris

Reading, Book, Remember

Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.31, Macmillan

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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.

Thomas Harris

Able, Emotion, Common

Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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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.

Thomas Harris

Doe, Needs, Coveting

Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.296, Macmillan

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Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.

Thomas Harris

Slugs, Ants, Sun

Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.217, Penguin

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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

Thomas Harris

Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.319, Macmillan

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I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

Thomas Harris

Dragons, Insane, Call Me

Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.217, Penguin

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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.

Thomas Harris

Life, Wish, Age

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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.

Thomas Harris

Quality, Sides, Said

Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

Thomas Harris

Rude, Trying, Should

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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.

Thomas Harris

Healing, Home, Broken

Thomas Harris (2007). “Hannibal Rising”, Dell

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But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

Thomas Harris

Sleep, Silence, Lambs

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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...

Thomas Harris

Breathing, Half, Faust

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We can only learn so much and live.

Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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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.

Thomas Harris

Simple, Fire, Evil

Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, Macmillan

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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.

Thomas Harris

Loss, Numbness, Numb

Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.83, Penguin

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The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

Thomas Harris

Air, Noise, Rooms

Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.14, Penguin

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It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.

Thomas Harris

Skins, Doe, Lambs

"The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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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.

Thomas Harris

Writing, Three, Window

"Will Hannibal the Cannibal eat Hollywood?" by Nikki Finke, www.cnn.com. June 4, 1999.

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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

Thomas Harris

Mouths, Feels, Strain

Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.168, Penguin

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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.

Thomas Harris

Morning, Home, Writing

"Will Hannibal the Cannibal eat Hollywood?" by Nikki Finke, www.cnn.com. June 4, 1999.

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