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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

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
Fades
Betray
Nowhere
Horse
Dreams
Dream

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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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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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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
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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 came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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