Thomas Harris Quotes

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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…
• It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
• Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
• Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held…
• 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...
• One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
• There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
• God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
• 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…
• You cant reduce me to a set of influences.
• 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…
• 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…
• When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
• I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.
• Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
• I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was…
• I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
• When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
• Ready when you are Sergeant Pempbry.

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