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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 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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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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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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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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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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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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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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Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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