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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
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.
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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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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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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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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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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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