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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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I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.
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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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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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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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It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
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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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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
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The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
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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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Nothing made me happen. I happened.
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Intense fear comes in waves the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
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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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I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.
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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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