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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

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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
Dracula
Devotee
Vampire
Horror
Fiction
Pathfinder

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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 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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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 will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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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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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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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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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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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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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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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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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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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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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