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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
License
Exercise
Situation
Choices
Freedom
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Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.
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I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.
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At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, Damn! I am a writer! How did that happen?.
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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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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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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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I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.
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In Lords of Rainbow I start out by taking away color from the world, and in the process show color's vital place in our lives. At least I hope that by the end of the book it's a portion of what the reader comes away with - a sense of how much color perception enriches our lives and how its lack can make our sensory experience incomplete.
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Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.
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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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Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
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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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My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.
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What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.
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Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.
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Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
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Most of us have nicknames-annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.
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A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.
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I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?
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