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Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

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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
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Madmen
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Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.
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Do we have to confess our loves to everyone? asked Thorne softly. Can we not keep some secrets?
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You are someone worth loving
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You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.
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I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.
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I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.
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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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All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.
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Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.
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How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.
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I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.
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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
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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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It's not so, I said. And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?
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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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The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
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Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
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Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.
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Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.
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Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is go where the pleasure is go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.
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