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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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Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.
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He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.
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There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.
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For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.
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Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
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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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Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.
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Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.
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The one thing you share with every mortal is death.
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Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.
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When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.
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as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.
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We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.
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What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, I will never do that again.
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I was good and bad, but never wicked.
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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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You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.
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A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, he said, but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
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My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.
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I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.
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