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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

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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
Merciful
Vampire
Precious
Guilt
Death
Love
Lestat

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That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.
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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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We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.
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I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.
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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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I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.
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Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt
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We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?
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To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.
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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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