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As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

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
Night
Inexplicable
Without
Understands
Shadows
Nightmare
Shadow
Arms
Alone
Peace

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You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.
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A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.
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I broke with my religion in college.
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I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
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Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
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Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
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Amazing what the British do with language the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.
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