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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.

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
Mine
Outpost
Danger
Rarity
Love
Gems
Buried
Core
Everywhere
Anger
Mines

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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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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 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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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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