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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.
Tanith Lee
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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
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Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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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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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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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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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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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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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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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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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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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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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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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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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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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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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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