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One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Time
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Seldom
Killing
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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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I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian, the Indian, Egyptian, etc. - all came later. First and foremost were the Greeks, and they were all living in my head as though I were Zeus and they were a clamoring Chorus of Athenas.
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I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems, embraced all writing assignments. And all along I read voraciously - first in Russian and then, after we left the USSR, in English, and even Spanish.
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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, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
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Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.
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Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
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A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
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A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
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I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths. Both are vast, harsh, implacable, homogenous to the untrained eye, and beautiful. Bothallow the wind to roam on the surface. And both serve as wonderful vehicles for human survival stories.
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The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
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A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try her again. I had never been so reeling with authorial joy as I had been that day, holding Marion's letter and seeing that ravaged manuscript - finally, it meant that someone cared!
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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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Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
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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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To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
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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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What is blood but the wine of life?
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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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