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A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
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The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.
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When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.
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Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.
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I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.
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The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.
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Every story needs to be worth telling.
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Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.
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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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It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.
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Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
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The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
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The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings.
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The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.
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Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.
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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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Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.
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We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.
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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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Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.
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