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

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Anne Rice
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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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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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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-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?
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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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In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.
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Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.
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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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Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt
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I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...
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Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.
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I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.
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But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.
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I never lie, I said offhand. At least not to those I don't love.
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I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
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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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Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
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If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.
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Pride is the parent of destruction pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.
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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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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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