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Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in the horizon.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone’, he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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The advantage of beating a mute is he can’t tell on you.

Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

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We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.

Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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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.

Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.

Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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