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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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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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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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… 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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In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, Is this all?
Thomas Harris
Problem-solving is hunting it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas Harris
Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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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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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
Thomas Harris
One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
Thomas Harris
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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It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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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.
Thomas Harris
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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I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
Thomas Harris
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.
Thomas Harris
I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.
Thomas Harris
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
Thomas Harris
And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
Thomas Harris
Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
Thomas Harris
I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
Thomas Harris
