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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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Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
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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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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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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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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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I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
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When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
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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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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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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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The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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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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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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You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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