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Problem-solving is hunting it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
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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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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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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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
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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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When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
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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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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
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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 occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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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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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
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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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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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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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