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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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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
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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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Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.
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Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.
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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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How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.
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The human heart is my school.
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I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.
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He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.
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I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
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Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
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But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.
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I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.
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One tiny flame could make so many other flames one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
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Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
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No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.
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I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.
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A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.
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