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He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
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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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You're a perfect devil, Lestat! he was saying. That's what you are! You are the devil himself!
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Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
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If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.
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Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.
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It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.
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I would have done just about anything for him.
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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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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first the old wither slowly the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
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I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
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Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
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Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
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But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
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In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.
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Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.
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The human heart is my school.
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God, why didn't you make us all dogs?
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