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Tanith Lee Inspirational Quotes (46)

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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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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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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.
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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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