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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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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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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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I broke with my religion in college.
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DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.
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But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.
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When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
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When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.
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Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.
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I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
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For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.
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Despair was so familiar to me it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again.
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I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.
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But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.
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I was good and bad, but never wicked.
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When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
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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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It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.
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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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Get thee behind me, tragedy.
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Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.
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