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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
Solely
Vulgar
Avoid
Worst
Vulgarity
Grounds
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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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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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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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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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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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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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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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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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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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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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