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I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I really believed, lectures from here and there on the real truth, etc.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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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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You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.
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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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Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.
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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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But death we are, and death we've always been.
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My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.
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But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
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The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.
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I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid. - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532
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Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.
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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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We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.
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Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.
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Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
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Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.
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Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
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Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.
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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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I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius
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