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I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

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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
Surpassed
Knew
Beauty
Language
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Women

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I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
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...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.
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Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.
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An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.
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Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth
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When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.
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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
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an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.
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The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.
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My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.
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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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Get thee behind me, tragedy.
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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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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.
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I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach.
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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
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Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun
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Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.
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Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
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