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Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Subversion
Awakening
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Fantasy
Literature

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We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.
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Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.
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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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Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.
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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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Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.
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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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Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.
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The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.
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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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I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.
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An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.
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Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.
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Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!
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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.
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Because without such a reprieve we cannot pause and regroup and with the newfound strength go on to initiate that very change which is sorely needed by all.
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There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.
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In some of my works I take away other elements of the world - normalcy, sex drive, sense of time, memory, a loved one. Without some of these basics, characters have no choice but to do something to reclaim their lives.
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Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
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Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of enhancing it or directing attention to it by shouting about it, I simply take it away.
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