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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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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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Kill
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Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.
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Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
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How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.
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I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.
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Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!
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I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
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Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.
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Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?
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I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
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The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
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It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
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