Anne Rice Quotes

#1. Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

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#2. As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

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#3. The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

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#4. The moon that rose over New Orleans then still rises. As

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#5. Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

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#6. Beside him walked a vampire nearly as old as Gregory, and indeed this one was none other than Seth, the son of the ancient Mother.

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#7. A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

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#8. Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

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#9. Love. Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.

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#10. I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.

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#11. We are witnesses with both too much and too little feeling.

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#12. Blood Genesis In the beginning were the spirits. They were invisible beings, heard and seen only by the most powerful sorcerers or witches.

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#13. Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.

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#14. Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

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#15. A silence fell between us. "I loved her, you know," I said. "I loved her." "Yes, I do know," he said, "and, you see, I did not. And so this doesn't matter to me very much. What matters much more is that I love you.

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#16. And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that woman would make and what woman have to teach men, and only when men can be taught will they be allowed to run free among woman again

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#17. Speak to me of the dark gifts. I use them. I'm gentleman death in silk and lace, come to put out the candle.

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#18. Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can hear the wool grow on the backs of sheep, and the grass grow far away in the lands where the snow melts.

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#19. You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

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#20. Something had happened to his entire body that was very much like what happens to the erectile tissue of his organ when a man is sexually aroused. It increases marvellously in size, no matter what the man wants to happen. It goes from something flaccid and secret to becoming a kind of weapon.

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#21. An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.

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#22. Your body's dying...pay no attention

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#23. Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

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#24. All my struggles, my triumphs, my losses, were being eclipsed by what was being revealed now. Had ever ennui and despair been banished by such revelations, such precious gifts of truth?

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#25. You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.

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#26. Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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#27. I know this kind of person. I've known them all my life. They get the sympathy of others with what passes for insecurity. But what really motivates them is a vanity so immense most of us can not conceive of it. Insecurity is simply a disguise.

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#28. And then the most evil idea came to me. The idea came to me unbidden as if there really were a Satan in the world and that Satan had come crawling along the stone floor towards me and put the idea in my mind.

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#29. Time can tick when there is no clock.

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#30. You painted armless beings, swimming in blinding color, and they had to exist like that forever. Could they see you with all those tiny, scattered eyes? Or did they only see the heaven and hell of their own shining realm, anchored to the studs in the wall by a piece of twisted wire?

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#31. I would have done just about anything for him.

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#32. But what endures is what has always mattered: love - that we love one another as surely as we are alive. And if there is any hope for us to ever really be good - that hope will be realized through love.

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#33. We have souls, you and I. We want to know things; we share the same earth, rich and verdant and fraught with perils. We don't either of us know what it means to die, no matter what we might say to the contrary.

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#34. Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this story.

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#35. I mean it's a concept born out of moral idiocy, this idea of love!

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#36. and when I took my fingers down, there was the stain of the tears, tinged with mortal blood. And already there was begun in me the tingling of the monster that had killed, and would kill again,

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#37. end. Before I even meant to do

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#38. Now, when a vampire goes underground as we call it - when he ceases to drink blood and he just lies in the earth - he soon becomes too weak to resurrect himself, and what follows is a dream state.

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#39. One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.

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#40. It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

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#41. Hauntings only repeat what occurred once upon a time.

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#42. She appeared in a dashing fur coat and very high heels, with a bottle of bootleg whiskey in a brown paper bag from which she drank all during the meeting, erupting into wild laughter

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#43. I wish you hadn't told her. If you must know, I could have done without your telling her I commited statutory rape on the living room couch with her cousin. - Michael Curry

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#44. Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

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#45. There's a bitter cold in me, a cold which comes from a distant land. And nothing ever really makes it warm. You knew of this cold. You tried a thousand times to melt it, and transform it to something more brilliant, but you never succeeded.

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#46. Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

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#47. Wisdom is strength. Collect yourself, whatever you are, into something with a purpose.'

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#48. The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.

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#49. People create these extravagant habitats because they have vision, love of beauty, hopes and dreams.

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#50. though the melody kept putting its hooks into me and dragging me with it mentally so that I was dancing in my head against my will. And

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#51. We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

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#52. There's always been a demeanor to Mekare,

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#53. His beauty has always maddened me. I think I idealize him in my mind when I'm not with him; but then when I see him again I'm overcome.

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#54. The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

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#55. There was no time in Lestat's plan for anything but his plan.

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#56. I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

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#57. I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

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#58. I had turned to leave him when he took hold of me. His teeth went into the artery before I could think what was happening, and his arms went tight around my chest.

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#59. The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

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#60. 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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#61. And then he glanced at the ceiling and, making a fist with his right hand, he gasped, Damn you ... God! Damn you!

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#62. Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

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#63. Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

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#64. Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.

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#65. Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

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#66. I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy.

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#67. The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.

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#68. I dream of miracles but I cannot imagine them. I pray for mercy, yet I cannot envision how it would come about.

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#69. The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

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#70. 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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#71. And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, towards a sun which will never rise.

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#72. -You are on the verge of being truly mad.
-No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

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#73. I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

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#74. I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.

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#75. Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

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#76. For the moment, death is spoiling life for you, that's all. But life is more important than death.

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#77. Is there any one of us who doesn't want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

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#78. Let the flesh instruct the mind.

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#79. Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

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#80. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.

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#81. We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

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#82. Please, Master, I can't endure this," I said. "Then, how will you endure eternity, my child? Don't you know that's what I mean to give you? What power under God is there that can break me?

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#83. even if you make them, they'll turn on you, rob you, betray you, and take off with someone else.

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#84. Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

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#85. The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

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#86. Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

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#87. And it is a great fact of history that the most mediocre and well-meaning imbeciles can strike down the mighty with surprising effectiveness when there is such a huge disparity of souls.

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#88. It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed.

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#89. My body is no schoolboy.

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#90. Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

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#91. There are ways to live this life, and my way has always been one of inclusion - of our own kind, of all humankind, of all spirits, of all things under the sun. It's not a virtue with me. I don't know any other way to move through the world.

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#92. And so a ghost of him had been created by her hatred and her rage. It was fading, yet it still stalked her, even here in the safe hallways of her own domain.

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#93. It's hard to imagine Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Interview with the Vampire.

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#94. In a real way, eternity is merely the living of one human lifetime after another.

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#95. It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

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#96. First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful.

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#97. The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there was nothing but pain and desire Children mutilated to form a choir of seraphim. Their song was a cry to heaven the sky was not listening.

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#98. But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

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#99. Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

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#100. Be it further understood that all mortals who would receive the Dark Gifts should be beautiful in person so that the insult to God might be greater when the Dark Trick is done. Three

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