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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

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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
Pathfinder
Dracula
Devotee
Vampire
Horror
Fiction

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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 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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If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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 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 worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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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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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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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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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People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.
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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 is ever ordinary.
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Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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