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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.
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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Immortals
Supernatural
Heads
Gods
Beings
Animal
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Always
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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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 soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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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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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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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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