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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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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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Anne O'Brien
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Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.
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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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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
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… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.
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But death we are, and death we've always been.
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DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.
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You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.
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I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.
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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 was good and bad, but never wicked.
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And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.
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In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.
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I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
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To be godless is probably the first step to innocence, he said, to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost. So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions. An absence of need for illusions, he said. A love of and respect for what is right before your ey
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Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.
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I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future.
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I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.
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The one thing you share with every mortal is death.
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I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think
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