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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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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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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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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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The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
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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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Problem-solving is hunting it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
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Intense fear comes in waves the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
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You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
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I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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Nothing made me happen. I happened.
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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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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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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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Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
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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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It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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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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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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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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