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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

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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
Humans
Cruelty
Real
Sadness
World
Misery
Blind
General
Called
Politics
Human

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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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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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