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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.

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Anne Rice

Anne Rice

Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American

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I broke with my religion in college.

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I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.

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Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?

If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you vulnerable to violent flashes of recall, and then agitated you and made you unsure of what you knew and didn't know.

You have a tale to tell, you are ancient, and deeply broken. I feel love for you and cherish that it is what it is and nothing more.

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His hands would soon be trembling and he would have indigestion, but he didn't care. When you love coffee you abandon everything to that love.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

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