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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
Ordinary
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
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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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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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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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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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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 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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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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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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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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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I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.
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