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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
Expressive
Storyteller
Priests
Arts
Ancient
Art
Need
Scribes
Needs
Storytellers

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I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
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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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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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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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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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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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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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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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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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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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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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