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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

Anne Rice

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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New Orleans
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Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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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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I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
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No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.
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When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
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I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.
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But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.
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I broke with my religion in college.
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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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I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.
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Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
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His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.
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I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.
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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
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I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.
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Every moment must be first known and then savored.
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I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think
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Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.
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Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.
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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
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