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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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Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

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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.

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I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find out the answer as to why we were ever alive. Even the avowed a...more

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We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that.

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One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot c...more

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We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch ou...more

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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 dr...more