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There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

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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
Water
Sea
Rituals
Black
Moved
Elders
Night
Air
Ritual
Earth
Dance
Silver
World
Gold
Rhythm
Moon
Speed
Opal
Violence
Putting
Elder
Fire
Shame
Unicorn

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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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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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World's flying like birds my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.
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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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