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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
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Roots
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Hundred
Sprung
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Secretly
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I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.
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The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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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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