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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
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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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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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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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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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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers 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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There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.
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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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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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It was so useful to lie with the truth.
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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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