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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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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
Watching
Made
Afterward
Every
Portrait
Would
Gesture
Portraits
Gestures
Sat
Paint

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World's flying like birds my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.
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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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 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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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 was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
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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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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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