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We can only learn so much and live.

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Thomas Harris
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 11
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Jackson
Tennessee
William Thomas Harris III
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I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
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When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
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I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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Hannibal Lecter: 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.
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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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Nothing made me happen. I happened.
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You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
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A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.
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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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And your dinner for the orchestra officials. 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. May I call you Clarice?
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Intense fear comes in waves the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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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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What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.
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