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The only way to help your unique literary voice grow and eventually sing like a glorious creature of wonder is to write what you excites you into a creative passion and brings you pure unadulterated joy.

Vera Nazarian

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Vera Nazarian
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 25
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Science Fiction Writer
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Clad in metaphor, the world becomes newborn to our senses, like a phoenix. It is the most effective fresh presentation of the elements of our life for our jaded, numbed, even ailing sense of imagination.
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A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.
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I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.
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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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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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The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
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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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If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.
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I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.
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Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.
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In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
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To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
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