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It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.
Anne Rice
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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.
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I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
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Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?
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We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
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I would have done just about anything for him.
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I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.
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Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.
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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
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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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If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.
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It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
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There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.
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I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.
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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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We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.
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Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.
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Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
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... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.
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