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Tales of heroes end in bliss.

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
Heroes
Bliss
Tales
Hero
Ends

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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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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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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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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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People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.
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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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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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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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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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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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