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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
Hundred
Single
Sprung
Secretly
Root
Flowers
Loves
Roots
Flower

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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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