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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.

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

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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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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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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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