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Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Smart
Knowing
Whip
Whips
Crack
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Cracks

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Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.
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When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer or an astronomer. In fact, if you'd asked me then about a life of solitary writing I would have said, Oh how boring! Imagine, to sit at a desk all day and just write.
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The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.
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A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
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Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.
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Every story needs to be worth telling.
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Clad in metaphor, the world becomes newborn to our senses, like a phoenix. It is the most effective fresh presentation of the elements of our life for our jaded, numbed, even ailing sense of imagination.
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The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.
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A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
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A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.
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The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
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The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
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Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.
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I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian, the Indian, Egyptian, etc. - all came later. First and foremost were the Greeks, and they were all living in my head as though I were Zeus and they were a clamoring Chorus of Athenas.
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The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.
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Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
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I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.
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Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of fantasy to be not Tolkienesque consolation but subversion - a kind of rebe Ûllion from complacency. Yes, I can see what is meant here. And I also see the need to change, to fix, to drastically improve the human lot.
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When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
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I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.
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