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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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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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Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
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Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.
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You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.
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I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.
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Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.
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Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.
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This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.
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It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.
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I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
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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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Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.
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A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.
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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
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It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.
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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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Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
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Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.
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Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're hot, and that is so good.
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