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You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
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I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
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We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!
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Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
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Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.
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I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.
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Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
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I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
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The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.
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Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
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I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue in every church. I'm talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.Wait a second.Do you know who I am?
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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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That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
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I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.
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Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers
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I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.
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To be godless is probably the first step to innocence, he said, to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost. So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions. An absence of need for illusions, he said. A love of and respect for what is right before your ey
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