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Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Someone
Effortless
Around
Recognized
Enough
Stick
Long
Sticks
Friendship
Essence
Friend
True

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Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.
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I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.
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And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late.
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I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain.
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