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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.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Takes
Lying
True
Place
Heartland
Find
Longs
Sometimes
Plant
Heart
Lifetime
Lies

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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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Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.
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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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I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.
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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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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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When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.
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Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.
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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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Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
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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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Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
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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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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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