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Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Events
Selves
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Recent
Fabric
Society
Deepest
Truth
Truths
Plunders
Wells
Fantasy
Existent
Well
Flow
Plunder
Self
Creating
Illusory

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