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Anne Rice
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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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Anne O'Brien
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Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.
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He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet sorrow flatters him like the light of candles tears become him like jewels.
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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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He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.
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Suffering of sentient beings is like decay it fertilizes the growth of their souls.
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I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
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And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.
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Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.
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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.
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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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Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies.
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You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.
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I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.
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Despair was so familiar to me it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again.
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People write to me all the time to tell me that homosexuality is an abomination. They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.
Anne Rice
Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.
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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.
Anne Rice
Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt
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I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me! -Claudia.
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It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.
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