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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

Thomas Harris

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Thomas Harris
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 11
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Tennessee
William Thomas Harris III
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Strain
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Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.
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I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
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