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Been Quotes by Anne Rice
- My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.
- Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.
- It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed…
- 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…
- The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
- Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by…
- In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in…
- It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all…
- Claudia, you've been a very very naughty little girl.
- You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my…
- One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.
- Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been,…
- The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.
- 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…
- 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…
- Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you…
- My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic…
- It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had…
- All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch…
- And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws,…
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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