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His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

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
Peace
Veins
Words
Vampire
Sense
Killed
Heart
Rhythm
Made
Terrible
Life
Blood
Knew
Lestat
Heard
Sweeter

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That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
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Pride is the parent of destruction pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.
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Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.
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Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
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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 never lie, I said offhand. At least not to those I don't love.
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People write to me all the time to tell me that homosexuality is an abomination. They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.
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I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future.
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Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.
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How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.
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