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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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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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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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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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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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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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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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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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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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 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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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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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.
Tanith Lee
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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No one is ever ordinary.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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