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Anne Rice Quotes - Page 5

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I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.

Humanity, Vampire, World

Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.299, Ballantine Books

As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.

Christian, Mother, Osiris

I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.

Race, Ideas, Evil

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1933, Ballantine Books

Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.

Beautiful, Eye, Names

An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.

Moving, Evil, World

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.719, Ballantine Books

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

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

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.

Sorry, Thinking, People

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

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.

Beauty, Pain, Giving

But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

Vampire, Would Be, Unbearable

"Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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.

Block, Reading, Writing

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

Kings, Output, I Can

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

Selfish, Heaven, Soul

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

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.

Simple, Giving, Optimism

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

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.

Night, Thinking, Voice

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

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

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

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.

Morning, School, Gun

FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Dec 21, 2012

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.

Happiness, Laughter, Perfect

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

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.

Book, Fall, Might

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

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.

Kings, Book, Reading

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

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

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.

Believe, Giving, I Believe

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

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

Baby, Scum, Lestat

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.

Character, Should Have, Principles

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

Sweet, Strong, Men

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

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

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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