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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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
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London
England
Esther Garber
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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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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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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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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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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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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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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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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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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.
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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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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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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 films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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