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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

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Anne Rice
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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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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Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
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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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Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
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But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
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I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
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It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.
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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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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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Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?
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-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?
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Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
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You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.
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I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions
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We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
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Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile
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I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.
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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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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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