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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
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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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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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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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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.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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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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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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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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