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Thomas Harris is an American author, best known for his suspense and crime novels featuring the character Hannibal Lecter. His works, such as "The Silence of the Lambs," have had a lasting impact on popular culture and the thriller genre. He continues to be recognized for his gripping storytelling and complex characters. Here are 51 of his 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. (Thomas Harris)
How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home. View quote
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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. View quote
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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind. View quote
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I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice. View quote
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I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me. View quote
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Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer. View quote
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Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice. View quote
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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. View quote
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The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room. View quote
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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)
It's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you. View quote
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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. View quote
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Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it? View quote
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I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter. View quote
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity. View quote
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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. View quote
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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives. View quote
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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Thomas Harris)
Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time. View quote
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Shiloh isn't haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn't care. View quote
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On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife. View quote
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The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you. View quote
Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris

Occupation: American Author
Born: April 11, 1940
Quotes count: 51

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