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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
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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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I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius
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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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…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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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
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He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet sorrow flatters him like the light of candles tears become him like jewels.
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The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
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To be godless is probably the first step to innocence, he said, to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost. So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions. An absence of need for illusions, he said. A love of and respect for what is right before your ey
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[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it? Oh, yes, it's there, she said. It's there because we put it there.
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I broke with my religion in college.
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And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.
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I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.
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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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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
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I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
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It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.
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I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.
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I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
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That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.
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