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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
Pass
Judgment
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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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The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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Whatever the hell I am, I am 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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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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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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