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a442683	None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.		Anne Rice
1764f6f	Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.		Anne Rice
9eba517	The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.		Anne Rice
c2dc379	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.	bibliophiles book-lovers willful-ignorance zealotry	Anne Rice
7f6ba3e	The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.		Anne Rice
02ef941	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.	satan vampire	Anne Rice
44c9199	Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!		Anne Rice
a1f36cc	I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."	lying lies lovers hate secret love truth deciet interview-with-the-vampire lestat lie secrets vampire vampires	Anne Rice
44bdba0	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?		Anne Rice
4be4d97	I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew.	vampires	Anne Rice
b467e88	The only power that exists is inside ourselves.		Anne Rice
435ec1b	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.		Anne Rice
1d095c3	Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth		Anne Rice
5d6bf6f	It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.		Anne Rice
1f1d9b7	People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.	good religion god devil	Anne Rice
44521e0	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.	universe hope lestat rescue safety	Anne Rice
f1e88e8	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.	daring risk courage seeking uncertainty questions knowledge	Anne Rice
c3b5d7b	Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.		Anne Rice
d383cdd	Take me from this earth an endless night- this, the end of life.		Anne Rice
3a21875	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.	love	Anne Rice
807e76d	Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.		Anne Rice
f767a03	If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.		Anne Rice
f37576b	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.		Anne Rice
f68bea8	Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.	karma death deserved louis lestat lestat-de-lioncourt remorse punishment vampire hell	Anne Rice
69f4e64	I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.		Anne Rice
c455102	Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.		Anne Rice
e7e0b6e	To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes."	lestat	Anne Rice
8b57280	And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.		Anne Rice
69b8246	And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.	ego	Anne Rice
24256aa	One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.		Anne Rice
ed56280	Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?		Anne Rice
899a5c7	A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor."	meaning reason humor lestat singer luxury logic vampire	Anne Rice
23b4b29	In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.	new-orleans vampires	Anne Rice
a06af83	How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.		Anne Rice
33742b4	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
a9cfd3a	Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.	loneliness love	Anne Rice
e41a3a7	I was good and bad, but never wicked.	applys-to-me inspirational	Anne Rice
b9e3d96	And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. I..	pain	Anne Rice
c48ffc7	I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.	wonder	Anne Rice
b0bf9c5	Every moment must be first known and then savored.		Anne Rice
df57f16	Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!		Anne Rice
4d399a8	Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets--as vast and indestructible as nature itself. All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and san..		Anne Rice
9261038	But you love books, then," Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. "Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive." "What a strange thing to say at your age," she laughed. "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope --- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new uni..		Anne Rice
8ad3f7b	But you love books, then," Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. "Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive." "What a strange thing to say at your age," she laughed. "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope --- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new uni..		Anne Rice

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

Anne Rice

1764f6f

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Anne Rice

9eba517

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

Anne Rice

c2dc379

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.

bibliophiles book-lovers willful-ignorance zealotry

Anne Rice

7f6ba3e

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

Anne Rice

02ef941

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.

satan vampire

Anne Rice

44c9199

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

Anne Rice

a1f36cc

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

lying lies lovers hate secret love truth deciet interview-with-the-vampire lestat lie secrets vampire vampires

Anne Rice

44bdba0

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?

Anne Rice

4be4d97

I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew.

vampires

Anne Rice

b467e88

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

Anne Rice

435ec1b

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.

Anne Rice

1d095c3

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

Anne Rice

5d6bf6f

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

Anne Rice

1f1d9b7

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

good religion god devil

Anne Rice

44521e0

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.

universe hope lestat rescue safety

Anne Rice

f1e88e8

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.

daring risk courage seeking uncertainty questions knowledge

Anne Rice

c3b5d7b

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

Anne Rice

d383cdd

Take me from this earth an endless night- this, the end of life.

Anne Rice

3a21875

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.

love

Anne Rice

807e76d

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

Anne Rice

f767a03

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

Anne Rice

f37576b

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.

Anne Rice

f68bea8

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

karma death deserved louis lestat lestat-de-lioncourt remorse punishment vampire hell

Anne Rice

69f4e64

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Anne Rice

c455102

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

Anne Rice

e7e0b6e

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes."

lestat

Anne Rice

8b57280

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.

Anne Rice

69b8246

And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

ego

Anne Rice

24256aa

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

Anne Rice

ed56280

Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?

Anne Rice

899a5c7

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor."

meaning reason humor lestat singer luxury logic vampire

Anne Rice

23b4b29

In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.

new-orleans vampires

Anne Rice

a06af83

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

Anne Rice

33742b4

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

a9cfd3a

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

loneliness love

Anne Rice

e41a3a7

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

applys-to-me inspirational

Anne Rice

b9e3d96

And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the full absurdity of Fate and Fortune and Nature more truly than a human can bear to know it. And perhaps the description of this, brief as it is, may give consolation to another. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. The truth is, you cannot prepare anyone for this, nor convey an understanding of it through language. I..

pain

Anne Rice

c48ffc7

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

wonder

Anne Rice

b0bf9c5

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

Anne Rice

df57f16

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Anne Rice

4d399a8

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets--as vast and indestructible as nature itself. All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and san..

Anne Rice

9261038

But you love books, then," Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. "Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive." "What a strange thing to say at your age," she laughed. "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope --- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new uni..

Anne Rice

8ad3f7b

But you love books, then," Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. "Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive." "What a strange thing to say at your age," she laughed. "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope --- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new uni..

Anne Rice