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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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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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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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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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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The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
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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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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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Nothing made me happen. I happened.
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
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He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
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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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Problem-solving is hunting it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
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When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
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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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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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I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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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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