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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
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Madness
Dies
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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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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 like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.
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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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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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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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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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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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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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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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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