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Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

Anne Rice

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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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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Innocence

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DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.
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And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.
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Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.
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As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
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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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I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
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What if I could give you your life back pluck out the pain and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.
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I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
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I broke with my religion in college.
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What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.
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Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.
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Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!
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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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I assume I don't need an introduction.
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... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.
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Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
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We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.
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We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.
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