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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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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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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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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 haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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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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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 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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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 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 soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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