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    Being positive or nice has nothing to do with writing. Literature is not a prelude to seduction and fornication.

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      Writes Shahan Shahnour in a letter to a friend (I am now translating and paraphrasing from memory): "Dupes have been the source of our downfall. What we need most today is the kind of common sense that can discriminate right from wrong, and good from evil. What we don't need is the empty verbiage [i.e. propaganda] of partisan rhetoric. In the words of Arpiar Arpiarian, 'If we can't be useful to this nation, let us at least refrain from doing it any harm'."

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        Tuesday, December 13, 2016 / ON THE 1% /Where would the 1% be without the 99?*To paraphrase Gandhi: To defeat the 1%, all the 99% have to do is spit on them and they will drown.*Why do the 99% support and legitimize the source of their degradation and misery?
        Tradition, stupidity, ignorance, fear, control of the educational system, propaganda…Combine these factors together and you may come close to an answer.#

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          To understand history means to see the connecting tissue that binds two apparently unrelated occurrences. Naregatsi's lamentations and a thousand years of subservience. Abovian's suicide and the Genocide. Tolstoy's excommunication and the Russian revolution. The persecution of dissenters and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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          • Re: Writers

            Homer was dead wrong when he decided not to quote Greeks who said they resented killing and dying in defense of the non-existent honor of a xxxx who happened to be the wife of an impotent fool.
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                If you write what you think, you will discover
                there are others who don’t think as you do, and
                some of them are nasty enough to qualify as Turks
                on the warpath. Or, as Zarian put it in his
                inimitable way: “An Armenian’s tongue can be
                sharper than a Turk’s yataghan.” The massacre
                must go on….
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                • Re: Writers

                  INTELLECTUALS AND ACADEMICS
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                  An intellectual is someone who dedicates his life to ideas. An academic is someone who dedicates his life to his career. Once upon a time we had intellectuals but no academics. Today we have no intellectuals but over a thousand academics in America aloneWhich may explain why in literature even the Turks are ahead of us.
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                    There is a margin of error in all our judgments. That's one way to explain the blunders of popes, imams, and self-righteous fanatics who think of themselves as infallible.
                    But I could be wrong.
                    If only we, all of us, were capable of ending all our assertions with that qualifier – "I could be wrong."

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                      CRITICS
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                      “You are a disgrace to the nation.”
                      “Was your grandmother a Turkish xxxxx?”
                      “Why are you single? Are you a homosexual?”
                      “How much are they paying you to write as you do?”
                      “You are full of xxxx, Baliozoglu!”
                      “You are a tavajan.”
                      “Nobody reads you any more. So why don’t you shut up?”
                      “Nobody gives a damn what you think.”
                      “You call yourself an Armenian?”
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