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Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Free
Given
License
Exercise
Situation
Choices
Freedom

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We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.
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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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A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
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The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.
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Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
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Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.
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Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!
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Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.
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The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
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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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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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Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
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If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.
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Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
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Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.
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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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Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.
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Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
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The only way to help your unique literary voice grow and eventually sing like a glorious creature of wonder is to write what you excites you into a creative passion and brings you pure unadulterated joy.
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There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.
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