Anne Rice quotes

Anne Rice was an American author best known for her series "The Vampire Chronicles." Her gothic and sensual novels redefined vampire fiction for a modern audience. She inspired generations of readers and writers with her dark, imaginative worlds. Here are 231 of her quotes:

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. (Anne Rice)
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. View quote
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. View quote
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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 joy of writing them. View quote
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To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. View quote
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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 think them up. View quote
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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. View quote
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We're frightened of what makes us different. View quote
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I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. View quote
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Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. View quote
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The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable. (Anne Rice)
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. View quote
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I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. View quote
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In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards 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. View quote
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Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really. View quote
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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 rose. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you! View quote
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Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling. View quote
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Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther. View quote
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Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours. (Anne Rice)
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are. View quote
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Strong women are absolutely unpredictable. View quote
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The only power that exists is inside ourselves. View quote
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If I am an angel, paint me with black wings. View quote
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Anne Rice

Anne Rice - Image
Occupation: American Novelist
Born: October 4, 1941
Died: December 11, 2021
Quotes count: 231
Wikipedia: Anne Rice

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