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Tales of heroes end in bliss.

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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
Heroes
Bliss
Tales
Hero
Ends

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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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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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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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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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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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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 will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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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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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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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