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Quote by Peter Benchley

“I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.”

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Peter Benchley was an American author known for his marine adventure novels. His work 'Jaws' became a bestseller and was adapted into a classic film, having a profound impact on global culture. more

“Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.”

Ifs Years Together Sound Dark Space Rooms Scene Wrestling Flash Devoted Blank Echoes Snakes Lit Incomplete Static Corridors Archives Attics Plasters

Book:Hannibal Rising

Source: Hannibal Rising

“Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...”

Half Breathing Eighteen Climax Contemptuous Faust Mephistopheles

Author:Thomas Harris

“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.”

Mind

Book:Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

Quote by Peter Benchley

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