(?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)
Thomas  Harris

“Graham had a lot of trouble with taste. Often his thoughts were not tasty. There were no effective partitions in his mind. What he saw and learned touched everything else he knew. Some of the combinations were hard to live with. But he could not anticipate them, could not block and repress. His learned values of decency and propriety tagged along, shocked at his associations, appalled at his dreams; sorry that in the bone arena of his skull there were no forts for what he loved. His associations came at the speed of light. His value judgments were at the pace of a responsive reading. They could never keep up and direct his thinking. He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. There was nothing he could do about it.”

Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
Read more quotes from Thomas Harris


Share this quote:
Share on Twitter

Friends Who Liked This Quote

To see what your friends thought of this quote, please sign up!

89 likes
All Members Who Liked This Quote



This Quote Is From

Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1) Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
366,824 ratings, average rating, 9,294 reviews

Browse By Tag