Anne Rice

"And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars."

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"And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars."

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"I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia."

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"God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves."

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"A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God."

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"Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice."

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"Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind."

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"Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation."

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"Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak."

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"There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value."

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"Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!"

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"First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success."

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"Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is."

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"I was just walking around saying “We’re all gonna die!” I never got over it. I went to class, I did what I had to do, but I was a gibbering idiot. It never went away. I never again felt the same way about life and death."

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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt"

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"Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever."

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"I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity."

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"I was good and bad, but never wicked."