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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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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 was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
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Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
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The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
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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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Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
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I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.
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Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
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What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, I will never do that again.
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In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.
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Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?
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I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
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Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.
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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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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
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