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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
Tanith Lee
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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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 worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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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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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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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 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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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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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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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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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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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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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