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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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
Ancient
Art
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Scribes
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Storytellers
Expressive
Storyteller
Priests
Arts
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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 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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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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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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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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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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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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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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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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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 came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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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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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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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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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