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For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?
Vera Nazarian
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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
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Science Fiction Writer
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Russian SFSR
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The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
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Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.
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One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the notion that we already have all that we need.
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And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late.
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I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.
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I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.
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Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
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Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?
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Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.
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In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once again, you see the theme of taking away a precious element of the world or making it rare and precarious.
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Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
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In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
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Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.
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Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress.
Vera Nazarian
I am sure that inspiration will strike multiple times - it always does.
Vera Nazarian
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.
Vera Nazarian
In some of my works I take away other elements of the world - normalcy, sex drive, sense of time, memory, a loved one. Without some of these basics, characters have no choice but to do something to reclaim their lives.
Vera Nazarian
Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.
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Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!
Vera Nazarian
Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.
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