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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.
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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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 love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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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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I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
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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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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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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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Problem-solving is hunting it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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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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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
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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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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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We can only learn so much and live.
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Nothing made me happen. I happened.
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