Anne Rice Quotes - Page 17

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• Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're hot, and that is so good.

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  Smell, Order, Vampire

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2489, Ballantine Books

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• The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.

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  Perfect, Vampire, Outsiders

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• My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.

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  Jobs, Book, Hero

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• We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

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  Life, Breathing, Sun

  Anne Rice (2014). “Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles”, p.338, Anchor

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• This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

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  Pain, Suffering, Overcoming

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

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• There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

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  Waiting, World, Next

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

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• A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another.

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  Summer, Rain, Night

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• Evil is a point of view.

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  Views, Evil, Point Of View

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

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• I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

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  Moving, Character, Inspire

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• And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own drum, gave no notice to the rhythm of the other. The sound grew louder and louder until it seemed to fill not just my hearing but all my senses, to be throbbing in my lips and fingers, in the flesh of my temples, in my veins.

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  Sound, Yards, Giants

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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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 to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

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  Jesus, Character, Son

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• Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

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  Art, Shock, Madmen

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• I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity is. I feel most comfortable writing about monsters. It's possible that I feel like a monster myself. Or maybe it's because we all have a monster inside of us, a vampire, a ghost, a witch or a werewolf. You do it because it works and it feels really right and authentic.

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  Writing, Vampire, Ghost

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• When I realized that Reuben was a young man who really wanted to be taken seriously, because he was dismissed for being too good looking or because he had too much money - his character really came to life for me. I began to understand that, and see that a lot of people feel this way - misunderstood because of their talents or gifts or background.

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  Taken, Character, Men

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future.

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  Dream, Jesus, Belief

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.

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  Jesus, Children, Way

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.

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  Believe, Choices, World

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• What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, "I will never do that again."

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  Pain, Revenge, Recognition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.

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  Sex, Support, Catholic

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• Many Christians believe that the vast majority of those created by God will burn in Hell for All Eternity. Many Christians not only believe the world will end soon, but are looking forward to it. I MUST WALK AWAY FROM IT ALL. IN JESUS' NAME.

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  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

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  Needs, Etc, Film

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

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  Jesus, Believe, Names

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• People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

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  Believe, Justice, Great Men

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