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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

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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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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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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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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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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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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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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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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 is ever ordinary.
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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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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 just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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