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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

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
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Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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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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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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The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.
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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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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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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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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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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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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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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 just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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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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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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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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