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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
Priests
Arts
Ancient
Art
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Scribes
Needs
Storytellers
Expressive
Storyteller
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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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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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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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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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 was so useful to lie with the truth.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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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 came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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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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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 like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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