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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to 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
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
Madness
Dies
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Better
Things
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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 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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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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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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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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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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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
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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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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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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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