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  • #71
    Re: Writers

    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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    • #72
      Re: Writers

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

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      • #73
        Re: Writers

        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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        • #74
          Re: Writers

          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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          • #75
            Re: Writers

            GETTING INVOLVED
            *******************************
            “If you want to change things,
            why don’t you get involved?”
            “I am involved already.”
            “When, how, where?”
            “I am involved in literature.”
            *
            In the eyes of our pro-involvement advocates
            literature doesn’t count because it equates
            with mental masturbation.
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            • #76
              Re: Writers

              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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              • #77
                Re: Writers

                Writing for Armenians is a waste of time
                and our writers – all 599 (or is it 722) of them –
                have made no difference.
                *
                I envy Armenian writers who write for an odar audience.
                Consider Raffi Khachadourian who contributes regularly
                fascinating essays to the NEW YORKER.
                *
                Consider his recent essay on tavlu which i did not read
                but I suspect millions around the world did.
                #armenians

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                • #78
                  Re: Writers

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

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                  • #79
                    Re: Writers

                    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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                    • #80
                      Re: Writers

                      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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