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

Anne Rice

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
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
Madmen
Shock
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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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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
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When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
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The only power that exists is inside ourselves.
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I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
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I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.
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Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
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I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach.
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I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.
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Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.
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What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.
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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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Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither and die only to form an unbreakable chain which held me fast to this world yet made me forever its exile, a specter with a beating heart?
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And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
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I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.
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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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My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death
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I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me! -Claudia.
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Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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