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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.

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
Writing
Publishers
Work
Published
Much
Escape
Hated
Normal
Submitted
Feeling
Drudgery
Wish
Manuscripts
Feelings
Feared

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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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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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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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