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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

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
Hell
Whatever

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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 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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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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 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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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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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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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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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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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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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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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