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Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall -The Vampire Lestat

Anne Rice

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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
Handsome
Snuff
Halls
Reaper
Candle
Sucking
Vampire
Fluttering
Air
Candles
Soul
Grim
Enough
Hall
Every
Brief
Lestat

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Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful.
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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
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Do we have to confess our loves to everyone? asked Thorne softly. Can we not keep some secrets?
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I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
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Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.
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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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It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.
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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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As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.
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Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.
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Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.
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