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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

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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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Draw
Draws
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Stars

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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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People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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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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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No one is ever ordinary.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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 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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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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