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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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• What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.

  Thomas Harris

  Views, Empathy, Perception

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.189, Penguin

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• Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.

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  Thinking, Answers, Lions

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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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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  Children, Day Care, Guilt

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• Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.

  Thomas Harris

  Gratitude, Half, Half Life

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.122, Macmillan

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• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

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

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• Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

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  Luck, Bad Luck, Being The Best

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.10, Penguin

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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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  Thinking, Iron, Elements

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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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  Wife, Giving, Serious

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• I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

  Thomas Harris

  Ugly, Happens

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.25, Macmillan

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• I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.

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  Rays, Drs, Found

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.11, Penguin

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• Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

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  Mass, Murderer, Psychiatry

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.75, Penguin

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• Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

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  Book, Lust, Hives

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.146, Macmillan

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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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  People, Orchestra, May

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.

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  Fighting, Bye, Promise

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.231, Macmillan

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• Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

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  Writing, Digging, Done

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• It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

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  Hurt, Men, Imagination

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.190, Penguin

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• Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

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  Long, Body, Wave

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.356, Penguin

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• I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.

  Thomas Harris

  I Love Myself, Apologizing, Love Myself

  "Hannibal Rising". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

  Thomas Harris

  Thinking

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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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  Eye, Waiting Rooms, Mind

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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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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  Eye, Watches, Movement

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.434, Penguin

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• You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

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  Dog, Home, Cat

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.36, Penguin

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• Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.

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  Men, Care, Shiloh

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.443, Penguin

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• There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

  Thomas Harris

  Matter, Murder

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.443, Penguin

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