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I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

Anne Rice

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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New Orleans
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Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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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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And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
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I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.
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Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.
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The one thing you share with every mortal is death.
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How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.
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For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.
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I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.
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I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.
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Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.
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The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.
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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
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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 love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!
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Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
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My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.
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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
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He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet sorrow flatters him like the light of candles tears become him like jewels.
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But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.
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There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
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