"It was not apathy. It was an intelligent……" — Tanith Lee

"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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59 Quotes by Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who…
Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
Pirates have always fascinated me.
I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every…
Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary,…
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are…
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the…

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More Apathy Quotes

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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty… — Charles Baudelaire
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. — William Bernbach
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. — Ruben Blades
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. — Jimmy Buffett
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving… — Leo Buscaglia
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. — Thomas Carlyle
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel… — Noam Chomsky
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. — Winston Churchill
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum… — Hillary Clinton
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. — Louis D. Brandeis
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in… — Winston Churchill

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