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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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Thomas Harris
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 11
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William Thomas Harris III
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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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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
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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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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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