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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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Because, she said, that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.
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I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.
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The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.
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Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.
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I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.
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As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
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The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
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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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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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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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I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
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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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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first the old wither slowly the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
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I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.
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I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.
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Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.
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Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?
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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
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But death we are, and death we've always been.
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