Thomas Harris Quotes.

1. "I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor."
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2. "I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife - Hannibal Lecter"
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3. "A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling."
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4. "How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home."
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5. "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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6. "Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches."
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7. "The lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you'll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it's the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever."
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8. "Funerals often make us want sex—it’s one in the eye for death."
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9. "Jack Crawford heard the rhythm and syntax of his own speech in Graham’s voice. He had heard Graham do that before, with other people. Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person’s speech patterns. At first, Crawford had thought he was doing it deliberately, that it was a gimmick to get the back-and-forth rhythm going. Later Crawford realized that Graham did it involuntarily, that sometimes he tried to stop and couldn’t."
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10. "When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it."
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