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The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.
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I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.
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None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
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Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.
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