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I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

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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
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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
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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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I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.
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The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
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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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Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.
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The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
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In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.
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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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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
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I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.' It was my turn to laugh.
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Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.
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We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe which means endless.
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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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Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.
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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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As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
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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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