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Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.

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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
Walking
Imagine
Gems
Names
Picking
Eye
Stream
Words
Shallow
Beautiful
Streams
Like
Catch
Stones

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I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.
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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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When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.
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I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted.Oh, inocent love, she said even as she drank from me, oh, innocent innocent love.
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I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
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Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.
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It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.
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As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
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Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're hot, and that is so good.
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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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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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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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For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.
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Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
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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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You're a perfect devil, Lestat! he was saying. That's what you are! You are the devil himself!
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I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
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To be godless is probably the first step to innocence, he said, to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost. So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions. An absence of need for illusions, he said. A love of and respect for what is right before your ey
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