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I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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Another
Different
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Something
Way
Completely
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Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.
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No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.
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I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.
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Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.
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I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.
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Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
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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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Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.
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I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.
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In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.
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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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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
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There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.
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Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.
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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
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His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.
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I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue in every church. I'm talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.Wait a second.Do you know who I am?
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Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.
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For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.
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The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.
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