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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.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
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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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Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful instrument of imbuing value in an object than parting with it.
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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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Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
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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.
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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.
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Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to season people.
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Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.
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There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.
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Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.
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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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The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
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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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However I will never forget what Marion [Zimmer Bradley] did for me by accepting that first story from a stupid enthusiastic kid.
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Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
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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.
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I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.
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Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
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Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?
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When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.
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