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I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

Anne Rice

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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
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Love
Anger
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The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
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I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
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An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.
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Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
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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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And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
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an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.
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It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.
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I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach.
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Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.
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The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.
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Do we have to confess our loves to everyone? asked Thorne softly. Can we not keep some secrets?
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Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.
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