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There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

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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
Black
Moved
Elders
Night
Air
Ritual
Earth
Dance
Silver
World
Gold
Rhythm
Moon
Speed
Opal
Violence
Putting
Elder
Fire
Shame
Unicorn
Water
Sea
Rituals

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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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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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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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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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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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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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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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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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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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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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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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