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I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
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Shiloh isn't haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn't care.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
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How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.
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He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.
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I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
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I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
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I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
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The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
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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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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
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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.
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Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
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Said by Dr Hannibal Lecter:
I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.
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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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Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named — the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
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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.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Thomas Harris
Born:
April 11, 1940
(age 84)
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