Ann Rice
Ann Rice
Anne Riceis an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels, The Vampire Chronicles, revolving around the central character of Lestat. Books from The Vampire Chronicles were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire in 1994, and Queen of the Damned in 2002...
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I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power? Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough.
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Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on yoru shoulder adn saying Go No Farther.
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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.
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You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.
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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.
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Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no reason for any of it, does there? But what if I could give it back to you. Pluck out the pain, and give you another life, one you could never imagine, and it would be for all time. And sickness and death could never touch you again. Don't be afraid, I'm going to give you the choice, I, never, had.
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What a rare opportunity you have given the members of this committee, ... We will do our best to fulfill your expectations.
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It's one of our top priorities for the coming year and probably many years after that.
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I wanted to write only for Jesus Christ.
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It is surprising and it is dismaying when any of this happens regardless if its one or whatever time of the year it is.
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Whenever you hire anyone whose going to have access to children, you need to know what their criminal history is,
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When you're watching TV and they're reporting 50 people dead in Mississippi and you haven't heard from your family, well, you think the worst.
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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, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.
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They float upon the surface of the darkness in which I'm drowning.