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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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
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Solely
Vulgar
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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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.
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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No one is ever ordinary.
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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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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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 hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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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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