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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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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Knew
Anything
Nothing
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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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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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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 was so useful to lie with the truth.
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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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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.
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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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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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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