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

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