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Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!
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The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
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Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?
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I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.
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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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There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.
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Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.
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My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.
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I would have done just about anything for him.
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Perhaps this is the only real evil left.
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I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue in every church. I'm talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.Wait a second.Do you know who I am?
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Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.
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It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.
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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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Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
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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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I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
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There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
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It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.
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I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...
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