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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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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 was so useful to lie with the truth.
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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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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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 like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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 need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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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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