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True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Fantasy
Begin
Balm
Simply
Irritation
Takes
Heals
Away
Anew
True
Allowing
Life
Heal
Painful

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I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.
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Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
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And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late.
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Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
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Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to season people.
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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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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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