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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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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
Days
Literature
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Balmy
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Orleans
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Physically
Trees
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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
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Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
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[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it? Oh, yes, it's there, she said. It's there because we put it there.
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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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Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
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Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!
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I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...
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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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You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.
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Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.
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