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Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

Anne Rice

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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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 want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
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It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.
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Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.
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My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.
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…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.
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Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.
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I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.
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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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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
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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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It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
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A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.
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Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
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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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Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.
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It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.
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It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.
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I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future.
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