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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
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New Orleans
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Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
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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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Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
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I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
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The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.
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Let the flesh instruct the mind.
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Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.
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I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.
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I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
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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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Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies.
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Suffering of sentient beings is like decay it fertilizes the growth of their souls.
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In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
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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.
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I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
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Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.
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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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I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.
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Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!
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The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.
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Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
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