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Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that...more

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Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?

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And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars.

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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answe...more

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Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.David: You're serious?...more

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Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

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I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.

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Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed sna...more

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Despair is so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannekin in the window. It could be dispelled by the lights surrounding...more

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Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

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I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.

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Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

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Maybe we do go home, finally.

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I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

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Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.