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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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Screenwriter
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.
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Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.
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You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.
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Every moment must be first known and then savored.
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I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
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I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
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Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
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Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
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And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
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And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.
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You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.
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Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
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We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.
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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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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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Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun
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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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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.
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