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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Thomas Harris

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Thomas Harris
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 11
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Jackson
Tennessee
William Thomas Harris III
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We can only learn so much and live.
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Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
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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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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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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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I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.
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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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