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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.
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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Weak
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Strong
Ditto
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Demons
Men
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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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 will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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 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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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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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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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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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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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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