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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.

Tanith Lee

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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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Anything
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How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.
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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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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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 will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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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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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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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