Anne Rice

Anne Rice

"It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course."
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"It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course."
Anne Rice The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
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"But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again."
Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat
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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."
Anne Rice Blackwood Farm
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"A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another."
Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire
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"As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace."
Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire
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"when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us"
Anne Rice The Mummy
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"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."
Anne Rice
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"Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups."
Anne Rice
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"When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box."
Anne Rice
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"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds."
Anne Rice
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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."
Anne Rice
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"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
Anne Rice
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"I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces."
Anne Rice
"The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought choked half strangled or surrendered to with humiliation."
Anne Rice
"We're frightened of what makes us different."
Anne Rice
"All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk."
Anne Rice
"Malady of mortality"
Anne Rice
"Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?"
Anne Rice
"I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid."- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532"
Anne Rice
"“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”"
Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire
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