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No one more cynical than an idealist.

Tanith Lee

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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
Idealist
Cynical

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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.
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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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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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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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He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
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You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
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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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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death one more death of the heart.
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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
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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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We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
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