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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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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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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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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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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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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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 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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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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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
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We can only learn so much and live.
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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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Nothing made me happen. I happened.
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Intense fear comes in waves the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
Thomas Harris
I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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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?
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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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The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
Thomas Harris
When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
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