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A short list of my favorite American short stories:
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce;
“Kneel to the Rising Sun” by Erskine Caldwell;
“The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway;
“The Princess with the Golden Hair” by Edmund Wilson;
“For Esme – with Love and Squalor” by J.D. Salinger.

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A nation whose imams and priests outnumber its intellectuals is a nation on its way to the devil.

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Voltaire once remarked to a friend: "In literature, if you fail, they look down at you with contempt; if you succeed, they hate you." Judging by the amount of hate mail I get, I must be going places.

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I was silenced because I could not be slaughtered. And I could not be slaughtered because they don't slaughter writers in a democracy.

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GETTING INVOLVED
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“If you want to change things,
why don’t you get involved?”
“I am involved already.”
“When, how, where?”
“I am involved in literature.”
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In the eyes of our pro-involvement advocates
literature doesn’t count because it equates
with mental masturbation.
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The only way to make money as a writer, Flaubtert once said, is by flattering the public. Zohrab put it more bluntly when he said, anyone can engage in prostitution, including lawyers (he was one). Which reminds me of the American joke: "Please, don't tell my mother I am a lawyer. She thinks I am a pimp."
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Writing for Armenians is a waste of time
and our writers – all 599 (or is it 722) of them –
have made no difference.
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I envy Armenian writers who write for an odar audience.
Consider Raffi Khachadourian who contributes regularly
fascinating essays to the NEW YORKER.
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Consider his recent essay on tavlu which i did not read
but I suspect millions around the world did.
#armenians

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Because our best and brightest did not survive, our worthless and worst brag about their genius for survival.
#armenians

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From Avedik Issahakian's posthumously published notebooks / "Armenia labors under three curses: bad geographic location, bloodthirsty neighbors, and idiots as leaders."*"Contrary to Soviet propaganda, the Revolution does not change men into angels but into beasts of prey."*"We owe to the 20th Century two great discoveries: the disintegration of the atom and the disintegration of the soul. The first discovery was made by Europe, the second by Russia."*"Socialism is the enemy of culture." *"Ah! If only life lasted as long as death!"*"The eye cannot see that which the mind cannot perceive."*"If only men were born and died like the stars: part mortal, part immortal."#

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From Avedik Issahakian's posthumously published notebooks
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"Armenia labors under three curses: bad geographic location, bloodthirsty neighbors, and idiots as leaders."*"Contrary to Soviet propaganda, the Revolution does not change men into angels but into beasts of prey."*"We owe to the 20th Century two great discoveries: the disintegration of the atom and the disintegration of the soul. The first discovery was made by Europe, the second by Russia."*"Socialism is the enemy of culture." *"Ah! If only life lasted as long as death!"*"The eye cannot see that which the mind cannot perceive."*"If only men were born and died like the stars: part mortal, part immortal."#