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  • #21
    Re: Writers

    Only idiots assess themselves as smart.
    I speak from experience.

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    • #22
      Re: Writers

      Am I critical of the people? Yes, but only of the fraction that has been brainwashed and sees nothing wrong in it. Consider the case of Charents who allowed himself to be brainwashed by the Kremlin. When somewhere along the line he realized what had been done to him, he wrote to his muse:

      “You were like a sister to me,
      Truthful, pure and bright;
      But I spat on your face.
      I betrayed you one night
      With a cold mistress,
      Who sang to me dreams of iron,
      And took me into a world without love.”
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      • #23
        Re: Writers

        Bakounts went further and compared ideologies and regimes to temporary ailments, here today, gone tomorrow; and I quote: “They are just passing phenomena, a period when history is suffering from the flu, so to speak, a temporary ailment, after which, all the dead cities will rise again from the ashes, as long as there are still people in this world like Hovnatan March [the central character of his story], who will burst into tears whenever they hear the word Armenia, and who embrace this ideal as an alcoholic would grab his last bottle of brandy.”
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        • #24
          Re: Writers

          “YOU KNOW NOTHING…”
          ******************************
          “You know nothing about politics.
          Stick to literature!”
          a gentle reader informs me; and I suspect
          by literature he means mental masturbation.
          *
          “Stick to literature!”
          I have heard that line before,
          more than once;
          and I can’t help wondering,
          why is it that with so many political pundits
          our political life is such a mess?
          *
          What do I know about politics?
          Not much except perhaps two things:
          (a) when power is on your side,
          you don’t need to be right; and
          (b) when the majority subscribes to a Big Lie
          they call it religion or ideology.
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          • #25
            Re: Writers

            when asked why i write for armenians, my favorite answer is:"Because Zarian did."

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            • #26
              Re: Writers

              The challenge is to speak of serious things without taking oneself seriously; to be critical of others & even more critical of ourselves.

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              • #27
                Re: Writers

                A gentle reader once described me as "vicious."
                If true, this must be the first time
                in the history of the animal kingdom
                that a member of a vegetarian species
                has been vicious to predatory carnivores ten times his size.

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                • #28
                  Re: Writers

                  Everyone has a book in him, we are told.
                  What we are not told is that
                  most books remain unpublished,
                  and if published unread,
                  and if read forgotten.
                  *

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                  • #29
                    Re: Writers

                    COMMENTS
                    *******************************
                    In his memoirs Mahari speaks of our endless battle
                    against “the inner and outer Turk.”
                    *
                    I have reason to suspect
                    my life may not have been a total waste
                    because I may have inflicted some damage
                    on the opposition.
                    *
                    We have survived only in the sense that
                    the dead cannot be killed.
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                    • #30
                      Re: Writers

                      NOTES / COMMENTS
                      *************************************
                      From an anthology of children’s poetry:
                      “There is some xxxx / I will not eat.”
                      *
                      When it comes to reading the Writing on the Wall
                      we are functional illiterates.
                      *
                      We have an overabundance of
                      editors, printers, publishers, writers and poets
                      but not a single literary agent.
                      *
                      We are perennial victims and losers
                      because we don’t understand the logic of events.
                      *
                      Telling writers what not to write is fascist.
                      *
                      If religions and ideologies survive
                      on a steady and monotonous diet of repletion,
                      they must know something…
                      *
                      If I repeat myself,
                      why do you expose yourself to my palaver?
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