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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:

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. (Anne Rice)
The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead. View quote
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Every moment must be first known and then savored. View quote
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A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse. View quote
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Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. View quote
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The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us. View quote
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Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. View quote
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I stumble through a carnival of horrors. View quote
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My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it. View quote
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And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus. View quote
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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass. (Anne Rice)
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. View quote
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. View quote
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I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. View quote
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Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites. View quote
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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! View quote
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I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. View quote
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Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be. View quote
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Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely. View quote
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. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow. View quote
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I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water. (Anne Rice)
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. View quote
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Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed. View quote
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How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described. View quote
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I was particularly stunned by the casting of Tom Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler. View quote
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Anne Rice

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

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