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A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

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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
Worse
Sight
Child
Children
Even
Frightful
Starving
Vampire

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I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid. - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532
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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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I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.
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Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!
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I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.
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I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under indifferent stars like a seam.
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Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?
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Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.
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