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Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
May
Cooper
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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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Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.
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My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.
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If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
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Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
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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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Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light. There you go . . . That was easy!
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I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.
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Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.
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Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.
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