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Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Short
Necklace
Wonderful
Necklaces
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Individual
Entities
Stories
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Intensity
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Gleaming

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I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.
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Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.
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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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Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.
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When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer or an astronomer. In fact, if you'd asked me then about a life of solitary writing I would have said, Oh how boring! Imagine, to sit at a desk all day and just write.
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Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.
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Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.
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Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.
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