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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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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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Problem-solving is hunting it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
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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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Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming? Yes. Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. Yes, she said. I'll tell you. Do you promise?Yes.
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When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
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Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
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What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.
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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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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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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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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
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Nothing made me happen. I happened.
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… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
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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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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
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It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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