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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
Born
Better
Things

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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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