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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.

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
Ever
Wild
Reinforced
Thinking
Wide
Newness
Filled
Adolescent
Stop
Eyed
Wonder
Flame
Interest
Concrete
Everyone
Flames
Keep
Burning

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