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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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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Exception
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Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.
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I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.
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I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.
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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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An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.
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I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.
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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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Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.
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What is blood but the wine of life?
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Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
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A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
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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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The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.
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A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, In the desert, the only god is a well. I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.
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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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Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.
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Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
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A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
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I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.
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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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