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I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.

Anne Rice

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.
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I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
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