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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
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Screenwriter
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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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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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
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Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.
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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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-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?
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Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.
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Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.
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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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I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.
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I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.
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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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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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