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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
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Scribes
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Storytellers
Expressive
Storyteller
Priests
Arts
Ancient
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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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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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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 they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
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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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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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 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 will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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 haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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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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 like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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