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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
Madmen
Shock
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...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.
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Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!
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In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.
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Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
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As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
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None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
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Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
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I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.
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I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.
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When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
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I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
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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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When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
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We’re going to die and not even know. We’ll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won’t any longer be witnesses to it. We won’t have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We’ll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!
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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
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My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.
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Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.
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Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.
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Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt
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