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“We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“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.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“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 Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“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 Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“Silence can mock.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“We can only learn so much and live.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“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.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal