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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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Nothing
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You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.
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The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.
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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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And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.
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How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.
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Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.
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I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
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I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.
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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt
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Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
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Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
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The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.
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Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.
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And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any natural explanation offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.
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When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
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Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
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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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And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.
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