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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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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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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 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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I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
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Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
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Tales of heroes end in bliss.
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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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 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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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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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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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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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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