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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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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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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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… 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 am the dragon, and you call me insane.
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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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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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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
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When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
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We can only learn so much and live.
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I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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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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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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Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
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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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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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Nothing made me happen. I happened.
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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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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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