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A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.
Vera Nazarian
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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
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Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles.Then, pounce.
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Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.
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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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I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.
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Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all.
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Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.
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Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full or part empty? Take another sip. And now?
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For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?
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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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Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go . . . That was easy!
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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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Because without such a reprieve we cannot pause and regroup and with the newfound strength go on to initiate that very change which is sorely needed by all.
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The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings.
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A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
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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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Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
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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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To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
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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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It is life that fights and struggles and rages life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer... Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.
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