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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
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His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.
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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.
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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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Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
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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'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
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Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.
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I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions
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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
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Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.
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You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.
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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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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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The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.
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An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.
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Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.
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Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?
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You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.
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When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
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