"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."

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Tanith Lee

#Important Quotes #Influence Quotes

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
“Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse”
“I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.”
“When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.”
“On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.”

Source : "Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics". Book by Herschel Browning Chipp, p. 318, 1968.
“Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.”
“A simple lifestyle is good for us, helping us to better share with those in need.”
“Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little nutriment. The condiments or seasonings which are added are what are chiefly prized. Without these, we should almost as soon eat saw dust as mushrooms.”

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