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Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Time
World
Chastise
Aright
Elders
Respect
Young

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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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Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.
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Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.
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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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For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?
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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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I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.
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If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.
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A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
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When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
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Our world is so bursting-full of natural wonder that we are all experiencing a sensory overload. We are no longer perceiving all of Ú the details, just the ones that immediately interest us.
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Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.
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I am a novelist at heart.
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Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
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Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter.
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Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!
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Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
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Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
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