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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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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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The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
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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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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
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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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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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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 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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