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As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
George Sand
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...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.
Anne Rice
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Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought
Franz Boas
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I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
Anne Rice
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Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.
Patience Strong
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Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.
Anne Rice
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Do not accept gifts [because] that is bribery.
Umar
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Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.
Anne Rice
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Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.
Umar
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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...
Tracey Emin
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If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
Umar
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I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid. - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532
Anne Rice
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There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress
Umar
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He who wins through fraud is not a winner.
Umar
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When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.
Anne Rice
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Get thee behind me, tragedy.
Anne Rice
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I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.
Anne Rice
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When you do not know of a thing say so plainly.
Umar
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It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.
Diane von Furstenberg
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It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.
Anne Rice
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Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.
Umar
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Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.
Anne Rice
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I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
Anne Rice
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I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
John Malkovich
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