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My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

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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
Immortal
Killing
Conscience
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Ignominious

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The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.
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