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Nothing made me happen. I happened.
Thomas Harris
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Thomas Harris
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 11
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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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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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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
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Problem-solving is hunting it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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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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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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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
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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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But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.
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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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It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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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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I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
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