Anne Rice Quotes

• “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”

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• “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”

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• “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

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• “The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”

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• “Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.”

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• “The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”

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• “To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

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• “Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”

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• “In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”

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• “Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!”

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• “I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”

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• “The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”

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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?”

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• “Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. 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.”

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• “I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.”

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• “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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• “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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• “Keep your secrets
  Keep your silence
  It is a better gift than truth”

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• “It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.”

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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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• “People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

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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 -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”

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• “Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”

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• “Take me from this earth
  an endless night-
  this, the end of life.
  From the dark I feel your lips
  and taste your bloody kiss.”

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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.”

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