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Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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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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How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.
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I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.
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The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
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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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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt
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Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.
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Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?
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He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet sorrow flatters him like the light of candles tears become him like jewels.
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I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.
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I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.
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I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
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Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
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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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But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.
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Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall -The Vampire Lestat
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As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
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So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.
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I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
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We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
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My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.
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