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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
Tanith Lee
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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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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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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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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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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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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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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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 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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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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No one is ever ordinary.
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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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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 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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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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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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No one more cynical than an idealist.
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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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