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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
Tanith Lee
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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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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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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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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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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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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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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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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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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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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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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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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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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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