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Get thee behind me, tragedy.

Anne Rice

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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New Orleans
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Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall -The Vampire Lestat
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I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
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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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I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
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Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.
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Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.
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And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.
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Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.
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I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I really believed, lectures from here and there on the real truth, etc.
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I love the one who punishes me well.
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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
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It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.
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How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.
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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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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.
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I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
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My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.
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Drink from me and live forever. Lestat de Lioncourt
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We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
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I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
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