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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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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
Mercy
Dreams
Dream
May
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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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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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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