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It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.
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All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.
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I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.
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I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.
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Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
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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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I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I really believed, lectures from here and there on the real truth, etc.
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Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
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Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!
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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
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If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.
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Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
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It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.
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One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.
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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
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I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
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I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
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