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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 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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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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 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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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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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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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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 will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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