Vera Nazarian Quotes - Page 2

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• Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

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  Inspirational, Sexy, Travel

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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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  People, Helping, Remember

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• All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

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  Responsibility, Knowing, Stories

  Vera Nazarian (2004). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.174, Wildside Press LLC

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• A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

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  Wise, Rocks, Take Time

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• Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.

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  Inspirational, Song, Wind

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• Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

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  Vision, Sunflower, Looks

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• A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

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  Moving, Circles, Return Back

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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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  Tunnels, Perception, Vision

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.

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  Jewels, Stories, Necklaces

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Most of us have nicknames-annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.

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  Names, Secret, Wonder

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• I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.

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  Achieve, Accomplish

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• Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.

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  Creativity, Creative, Elements

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• My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in. By reading you hone your internal ear for style. Second, write. Everything comes down to it; unless you write, you are not a writer. Third, submit your work. But - stop chasing every seductive new market out there, and stop trying to write for the tastes of specific established professional markets and editors. That way lies mediocrity and eventual
  dissolution of your true voice, no matter how embryonic or pronounced it may be now.

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  Lying, Reading, Writing

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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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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  Sex, Memories, Character

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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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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  Love Is, People, Use

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• Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

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  Thinking, Luck, Tickets

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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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  Smile, Hurt, Riot

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• The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

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  Weed, Garden, Water

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• Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

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  Soulmate, Desire, Limits

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• Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

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  People, Dessert, Eating

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• There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

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  Lying, Playing Games, Differences

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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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  Travel, Home, Land

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• Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

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  Patience, Achievement, Virtue

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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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  Memories, Two, Stories

  Vera Nazarian (2002). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.193, Wildside Press LLC

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• Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.

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  Ocean, Eye, Wind

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