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Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
Baby
Looking
Toughen
Lestat
Scum
Eternal

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Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
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A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, he said, but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
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We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.
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The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
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But death we are, and death we've always been.
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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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Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
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Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.
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I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.
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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
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I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
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Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.
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Because, she said, that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.
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The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.
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My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.
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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
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Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.
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