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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
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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It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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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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The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
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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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I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
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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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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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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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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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You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
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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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I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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We can only learn so much and live.
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