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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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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
People
Immortals
Supernatural
Heads
Gods
Beings
Animal
Start
Always

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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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