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... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

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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Fear
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But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.
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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
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Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
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Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.
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As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.
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Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
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Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
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And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.
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Evil is a point of view.
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Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.
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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
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I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.
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I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.
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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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And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any natural explanation offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.
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I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me! -Claudia.
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To be godless is probably the first step to innocence, he said, to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost. So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions. An absence of need for illusions, he said. A love of and respect for what is right before your ey
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All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.
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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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I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.
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