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When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

Anne Rice

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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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Every
Something
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Enough

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Every moment must be first known and then savored.
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There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.
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Despair was so familiar to me it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again.
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Let the flesh instruct the mind.
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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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What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.
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Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth
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Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.
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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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-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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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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... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.
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When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.
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Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
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I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.
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To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.
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You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.
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I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.
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And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.
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And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
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