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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.

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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
Love
Endless
Games
Death
Play
Time

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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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