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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
House
Balmy
Beautiful
Orleans
Love
Physically
Trees
Air
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We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
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I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.
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when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us
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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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I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
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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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Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.
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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
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Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is go where the pleasure is go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.
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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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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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You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.
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I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
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Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
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