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Ardelia Mapp was a great tutor--she could spot a test question in a lecture farther than a leopard can see a limp--but she was not much of a runner. She told Starling it was because she was so weighted with facts.

Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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Mapp: He sounds like he's pretty funny. I've about decided that funny's the best thing in men, I'm talking about aside from money and your basic manageability.

Starling: Yeah, and manners too, you can't leave that out.

Mapp: Right. Give me a son of a bitch with some manners every time.

from: Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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We don't begin to covet with imagined things.

Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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Don't let your temper get your ass shot off.

Sergeant Tate, from Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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Tate had seen many things. He had seen accidents beyond reckoning, fights, murders. He had seen six dead policemen in his time. But he thought that what lay at his feet was the worst thing he had ever seen happen to an officer.

Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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Lecter: What is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its casual nature?

Starling: That doesn't mean anything to me.

Lecter: What does he do, the man you want?

Starling: He kills--

Lecter: Ah--that's incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing?

Starling: Anger, social resentment, sexual frus--

Lecter: No.

Starling: What, then?

Lecter: He covets.

from: Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read, Clarice.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, from Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lamb

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Starling: They didn't send me. I just came.

Lecter: People will say we're in love.

from: Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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Curious how things can work on you even when you recognize them. Curious how the gift of leadership is often a coarse gift.

Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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Chilton: He's not your job anymore, Barney. I'll be there. I'll show them how to manage him, every step.

Barney: They better pay attention. He will.

from: Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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And then, the last words Raspail ever said: "I wonder why my parents didn't kill me before I was old enough to fool them."

Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, from Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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There's a moth, more than one in fact, that lives only on tears.

Pilcher, from Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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Two big-city columnists had found a headline in e.e. cummings' deadly little poem "Buffalo Bill":

...how do you like your blueeyed boy

Mister Death

Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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Starling: And your dinner for the orchestra officials.

Dr. Lecter: 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.

from: Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

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Primum non nocere. First do no harm.

Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs