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The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Intense
Reader
Share
Firsts
Evolved
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Sharing
Thing
Readers
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Necessity
Intimate

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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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Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
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A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.
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