Anne Rice Quotes - Page 5

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• I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

  Anne Rice

  Strength, Inspiring, Believe

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.861, Ballantine Books

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• I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

  Anne Rice

  Kings, Output, I Can

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• What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Pain, Giving

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• Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.

  Anne Rice

  Sorry, Thinking, People

  Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, don’t do it. … Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. … Don’t take any guff off anybody.

  Anne Rice

  Block, Reading, Writing

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• Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

  Anne Rice

  Selfish, Heaven, Soul

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2825, Ballantine Books

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• It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.

  Anne Rice

  Simple, Giving, Optimism

  Anne Rice (1983). “The Queen of the Damned”, Ballantine Books

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• The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

  Anne Rice

  Morning, School, Gun

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Dec 21, 2012

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• 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.

  Anne Rice

  Night, Thinking, Voice

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.183, Ballantine Books

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• I stumble through a carnival of horrors

  Anne Rice

  Horror, Lestat, Carnivals

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.767, Ballantine Books

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• Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

  Anne Rice

  Secret, Bells, Hell

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.727, Ballantine Books

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• Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

  Anne Rice

  Tragedy, Way, Life Is

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• 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

  Happiness, Laughter, Perfect

  Anne Rice (1995). “Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches”

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• 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.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, Giving, I Believe

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.482, Ballantine Books

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• Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

  Anne Rice

  Baby, Scum, Lestat

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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

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.

  Anne Rice

  Sweet, Strong, Men

  "The Mummy or Ramses the Damned". Book by Anne Rice, 1989.

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• Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

  Anne Rice

  Evil, Age, New Age

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.698, Ballantine Books

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• Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

  Anne Rice

  Past, World, Superstitions

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.690, Ballantine Books

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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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  Book, Fall, Might

  Anne Rice (2002). “Blackwood Farm”, Knopf

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• We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

  Anne Rice

  Saint, Literature, Christ

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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

  Christian, Buddhist, Children

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• Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful.

  Anne Rice

  Hurt, Sorry, School

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Oct 28, 2011

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• 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.

  Anne Rice

  Character, Should Have, Principles

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• It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.

  Anne Rice

  Clever, Hate, Heart

  "Anne Rice defends Paula Deen" by Erin Strecker, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2013.

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