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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
Anne Rice
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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.
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I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.
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But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
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Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?
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We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.
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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 earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.
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But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.
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Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
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Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?
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Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
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I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
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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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There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.
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Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.
Anne Rice
…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.
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Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.
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Every moment must be first known and then savored.
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What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, I will never do that again.
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