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"Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder."
"It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back."
"The line from Pulp Fiction-the one Samuel L. Jackson shouts at John Travolta as they're trying to wash blood off their hands-pops into my head: 'I used the same soap you did and when I dried my hands, the towel didn't look like no fuckin' maxi-pad!' I almost-almost-share this most quotable of cinematic quotes with him, when I remember it contains The Word. You know: 'maxi-pad."
"After one and a half cocktails, finding the appropriate response is a bit of a challenge. I finally say, 'Thank you for inviting me,' and leave the less desirable 'Want to play strip poker?' in the unscrupulous part of my brain where it belongs."
"It is comic that a mentally disordered man picks up any piece of granite and carries it around because he thinks it is money, and in the same way it is comic that Don Juan has 1,003 mistresses, for the number simply indicates that they have no value. Therefore, one should stay within one's means in the use of the word "love"."
Explore more quotes by Anne Rice
"The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?"
"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."
"You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't."
"I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that."
"And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of day-to-day life, and if we were to die now, our lives would have been nothing but meaninglessness."
"When he speaks into your ear so thatno one can hear, he will say he is your slave, that he's passed to you from Deirdre. But it's a lie, my dear,a vicious lie. He'll make you his and drive you mad if you refuse to do his will. That is what he's done tothem all.' She stopped, her wrinkled brows tightening, her eyes drifting off across the dusty surface of thetable. 'Except for those who were strong enough to rein him in and make him the slave he claimed to be,and use him for their own ends. ' Her voice trailed off. 'Their own endless wickedness."
"I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk alone and I hear nothing, as if I myself had no inner voice."
"Lasher,' she said, 'for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the trees."
"I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless."
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