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I was seven years old. What do you know when you're seven years old? All my life, or so I thought, we'd been in the city of Alexandria, in the Street of the Carpenters, with the other Galileans, and sooner or later we were going home. (Anne Rice)
But let me be a lover in the Savage Garden with you, and the light that went out of life would come back in a great burst of glory. Out of mortal flesh I would pass into eternity. I would be one of you. View quote
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God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms. View quote
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I saw it," said James. "I saw it when he made the sparrows out of clay on the Sabbath. The teacher told him he shouldn't do such things on the Sabbath. Jesus looked at the birds and they turned into real birds. They flew away. You saw it too. He killed Eleazer, Mother, I saw it. View quote
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Centuries ago, when I first stood on that little boulevard stage in Paris - when I saw the happy faces, when I heard applause - I felt as if my body and soul had found their destiny; I felt as if every promise in my birth and childhood had begun its fulfillment at last. Oh, there were other actors, worse and better; other singers; other clowns; there have been a million since and a million will come after this moment. But each of us shines with his own inimitable power; each of us comes alive in his own unique and dazzling moment; each of us has his chance to vanquish the others forever in the eye of the beholder, and that is the only kind of accomplishment I can really understand: the kind of accomplishment in which the self-this self, if you will - is utterly whole and triumphant. View quote
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We would make our heroes shallow,” he answered, the words very slow and almost sad. "We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength. View quote
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Doesn't matter now, devils who paint angels. View quote
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Of course I deserve it,” I said, stroking Mojo. "That's the simplest thing about dealing with me, apparently. I always deserve the worst! The worst disloyalty, the worst betrayal, the worst abandonment! Lestat the scoundrel. Well, they have left this scoundrel entirely on his own. View quote
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The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are? View quote
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I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out. View quote
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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. (Anne Rice)
Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. View quote
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My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. View quote
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I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them. View quote
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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. View quote
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I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on. View quote
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I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways. View quote
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Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge. View quote
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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. (Anne Rice)
For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being "Christian" or to being part of Christianity. It's simply impossible for me to "belong" to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else. ... In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen. View quote
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"I see . . ." said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. [first line]. View quote
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The Vampire Lestat here. I have a story to tell you. It's about something that happened to me. View quote
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Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot? View quote
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