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What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
Tanith Lee
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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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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 bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.
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It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.
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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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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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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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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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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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