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Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

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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That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.
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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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I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.
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And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
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We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
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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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Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.
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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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as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.
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Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile
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Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.
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It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.
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And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
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Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long.
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I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.
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But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.
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I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
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I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.
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