Anne Rice quote: "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."

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to b...
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I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ...
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box . . .
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Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no re...
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You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.
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I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edw...
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But at that moment I heard Claudia's voice. She was calling my name. I turned, and, through the tang...
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know w...
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During this crisis you failed us
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...
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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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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...
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A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...
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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 windsw...
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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and...
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In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection...
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Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
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What I don't understand about you is this, she said. You hold to your old belief in goodness with a ...
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And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the...
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Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
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I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no...
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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the q...
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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the cont...
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A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass...
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I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very c...
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The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a cat...
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Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actual...
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And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and f...
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I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
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That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenti...
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The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
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You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on th...
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I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
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Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.
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Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read th...
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Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give ...
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You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence...
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None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
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Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God ...
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I am such a bad girl," she thought. Yet...
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What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? ...
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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else...
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Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the...
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Evil is always possible, and goodness is eternally difficult.
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Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are ...
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Su...
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I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.
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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff an...
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of a...
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We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love...
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What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought...
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The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. ...
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't kn...
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So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.
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In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art – the dizzying perfection of...
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I do not allow fan fiction,
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The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my charac...
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What are we doing here?" "Adventure, I told you.
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"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!" --Louis to Lesta...
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I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the rose.
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“Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we.”
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Every now and then I demand to be treated like the supernatural hero that I am.
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In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection...
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I never really envision the finish of anything that I start. It's risk that fascinates, the moment o...
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Finally those you love are simply... those you love.
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You are the damnedest creature! You make me think of the old story about Alexander the Great. He wep...
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Ah, but there are always rules to brake.
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So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and ...
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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
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I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and...
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Merciful death, how you love your precious guilt.
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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, given a greater luster to our colors, a richer res...
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I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think
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Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
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It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would ...
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Maybe that was all there ever will be just that one weekend and forever this unfinished feeling...
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It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the ...
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Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
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It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the ...
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Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told mysel...
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But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.

“Oh, yes,” Lesta...
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when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD ha...
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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer res...
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“A boy’s face, cheeks, lips, eyes, yes, and reddish-golden hair in provision. Good Lord, it was ...
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“If I’m an angel, paint me with black wings.”
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“And all the lives I’d lived, and the worlds I’d known, seemed even less substantial.”
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“Armand to Louis: “You realize this woman writes that her vampires sparkle in the sun!” Louis ...
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You are the son of the Lord God! She said. That’s why you can kill and bring back to life, that’...
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Following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Chr...
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Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun.”
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“Let the truth be damned.”
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“This is the only sun you will ever seen again. But a millennium of nights will be yours to see li...
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“Love and love and love in this vampire kiss.”
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Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual ...
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“Try to see the evil that I am. I stalk the world in mortal dress—the worst of fiends, the moste...
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“Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot giv...
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Horror and Moral terror can never be exonerated. They have no real value. Pure evil has no real plac...
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You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!
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You burnt my little house, didn't you?"--Louis to Lestat "Can you blame me?" "Besides, I was human w...
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I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew.
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“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
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In a long-term relationship, it's very easy to take each other for granted,
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But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never for...
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In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was hom...
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I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want ...
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What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?
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. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and underst...
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the...
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We're frightened of what makes us different.
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Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
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I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over my lips, my hands!
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Invest in a feather duster -- the possibilities are endless.
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They float upon the surface of the darkness in which I'm drowning.
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I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die ...
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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed...
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Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my qui...
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Ah forever!" I said. "I have such a love of that word, forever."
"Yes, it is a timeless word," ...
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Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a ...
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Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on...
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I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in th...
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Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
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A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.
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I am in love with you', I responded.
He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.
'Of c...
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To be this happy is to be miserable, to feel this satisfaction is to burn.
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Tell me how bad I am... it makes me feel so good.
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I don't like myself, you know. I love myself, of course. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. Bu...
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Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway. What are you going to do if I don't by the way, and...
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You are an imp, Lestat, you know it? A brat.
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Goodnight sweet Prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest....-Claudia DeLioncourt
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Evil is just a point of view
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Nuestro mayor error en todo el mundo es nuestra insistencia en considerar cada nuevo acontecimiento ...
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The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a t...
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There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in...
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No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” ...
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We live forever; but they don't come back.
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I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, somethin...
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My Lasher is powerful beyond your
dreams of a daimon, and he has learnt much.’
‘Learne...
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Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the futur...
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The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness.
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The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindnes...
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We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, a...
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But what creature in the world doesn't want to be loved for itself?
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I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn'...
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I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongu...
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Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can ...
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Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.
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I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
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I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.
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Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to...
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Maybe we do go home, finally.
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I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In th...
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When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
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I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the ro...
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I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to exa...
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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memor...
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Was this what he believed, what he had always believed when I talked on and on about goodness? Was h...
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A real devil among devils.
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De ce te face asta la fel de rau ca oricare vampir? Nu exista gradatii ale raului? E raul cumva o pr...
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One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has nev...
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I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
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She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our wit...
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I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd ...
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It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into ...
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Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Pa...
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A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end p...
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You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never d...
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I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in th...
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I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.
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Let the flesh instruct the mind.
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I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred ...
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Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.
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Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I ha...
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Every moment must be first known and then savored.
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As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds...
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How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.
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Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your...
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And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
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It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly...
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The only power that exists is inside ourselves.
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Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that consci...
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The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.
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Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all...
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I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted b...
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What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, an...
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The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below ...
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Hauntings only repeat what occurred once upon a time.
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With his finger curled under his lip, his elbow on the arm of the couch, he merely studied me as I r...
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I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries ...
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Louis found me in the rear parlor, the one more distant from the noises of the tourists in the Rue R...
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I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her...
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All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I...
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The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which s...
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All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I...
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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.

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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.

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