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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
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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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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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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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The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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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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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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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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People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.
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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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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
Tanith Lee
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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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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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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