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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

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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
Vulgarity
Grounds
Solely
Vulgar
Avoid
Worst

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No one is ever ordinary.
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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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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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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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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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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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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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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's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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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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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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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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