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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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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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World's flying like birds my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.
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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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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 haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
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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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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