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Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?

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Anne Rice
Age: 82
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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Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
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…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.
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How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.
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But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
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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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I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
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I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.
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Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
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Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.
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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
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I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.
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an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.
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Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
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But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.
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I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
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It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.
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The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.
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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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