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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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When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.
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One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!
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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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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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Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.
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I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach.
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I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under indifferent stars like a seam.
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All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.
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I no longer represent any organized religion.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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Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
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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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I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
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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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We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.
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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
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I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.
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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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As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
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I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.
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A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.
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