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[arabaliozian]

FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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To be an Armenian writer in Canada today
is like being a nobody in a no-man’s land.
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“Why don’t you quit?”
“Because that’s what’s expected of me!”
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As Armenians we enjoy three freedoms:
the freedom to emigrate,
to assimilate, and
to say “Yes, sir!”
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In the eyes of the 1%,
the 99% become a nuisance
when they refuse to recycle their propaganda line.
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A question first asked
by a smart (self-assessed) xxxxxxx:
“What’s your point?”
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[arabaliozian]

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ON OUR DIVIDERS
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We are ruled by dividers
who see solidarity as a threat to their survival.
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With us, survival comes first
even when it leads to decline, disintegration
and death.
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We are all failures, with one difference:
some of us get paid for their work.
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To our bosses and bishops,
a forked tongue is their only means of survival.
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When they speak of unity, they lie.
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They are believed only by children
and the brainwashed.
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[arabaliozian]

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WE DON’T NEED CRITICS…
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Our literature from
Khorenatsi’s LAMENTATION
to Charents’s final “Message”
is about solutions.
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When we say
“We don’t need critics,
we need solutions!”
what we really mean is
“We know nothing about our literature
and care even less.”
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What is emigration if not genocide
by other means?
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[arabaliozian]

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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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Mirabeau on Talleyrand:
"He would sell his soul for money,
and he would be right,
for he would be exchanging xxxx for gold."
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Our history in four words:
Bad neighborhood, worse leadership.
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Misfortunes come in pairs.
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They have a Nobel Prize winner
and we don't.
Moral: Only people
with an inferiority complex brag.
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[arabaliozian]

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ON OUR PROBLEMS
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Our problems are insoluble
because our 1% are insane.
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They are insane because
their favorite motto is:
The best way to save the nation
is by dividing it.
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We owe all wars and massacres
to the 1%.
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We did not behead any one of our kings:
therein lies the source of our misfortunes.
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Life after death and life before birth:
they share he same address.
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There is book wise and
there is street smart.
Street smart is better.
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[arabaliozian]

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IF…
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If I repeat myself
it may be because I have so few readers that
(a) the overwhelming majority of mankind
has not read a single line I have written and
(b) everything I write may well deserve to be read
by a minimum of one reader
and a maximum of two –
if you will forgive my megalomania.
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As far as I know
neither Homer nor Dostoevsky ever used
the expression “creative writing.”
If there is a buck to be made,
the Yanks will be there first.
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If there are no contemporary successful
Armenian writers it may be because
no one can be creative in a vacuum.
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Francoise Sagan in her book of CONVERSATIONS:
“I once told Von Karajan that my favorite piece of Bruckner
was ‘The Trout Quintet.’”
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