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Anne Rice Quotes - Page 8

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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

Greek, Literature, Study

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

Dream, Book, Ambition

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

Lying, Anger, Weakness

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

Dream, Speak, Disappoint

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

Relationship, Literature, Able

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

Vampire, Guilt, Lestat

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

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

Eye, Giving, Predator

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

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

Beautiful, New Orleans, Air

Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies.

Believe, Destiny, Choices

Anne Rice (1993). “The Witching Hour”, Random House LLC

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

Quiet, Easy, Expected

Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.55, Random House

Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

Space, Forests, Digital

Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.6, Ballantine Books

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

Writing, Different, Literature

I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat

Song, Blessed, Tunnels

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

Language, Lestat De Lioncourt

Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.338, Ballantine Books

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!

Odds, Age, Spirit

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.341, Ballantine Books

In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases--beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.

Art, Men, Garden

Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.

Dream, Angel, Sweat

Anne Rice (2016). “The Young Messiah (Movie tie-in) (originally published as Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt): A Novel”, p.255, Ballantine Books

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Halloween, Waiting, Littles

Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.911, Ballantine Books

Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.

Passion, Heart, Suffering

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

I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.

Dream, Loss, Long

Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.262, Ballantine Books

The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.

Real, World, Real World

I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.

Meaningful, Writing, Thinking

…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.

Atheist, Thinking, Ideas

Anne Rice (2013). “Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession”, p.129, Random House

Evil is a point of view.

Views, Evil, Point Of View

Anne Rice (1976). “Interview with the Vampire: A Novel”

But death we are, and death we've always been.

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