The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. … - Thomas Harris

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When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.

Thomas Harris

The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

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I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

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Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.

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Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes. " Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you. " "Do you promise?""Yes.

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Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

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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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I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

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George Mason

One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.

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Criss Jami

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.

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Gloria Vanderbilt

When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

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