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Emil Ostrovski

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Fiction, Young Adult

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The Paradox of Vertical Flight is my debut novel. It will be released in English in 2013, and in Spanish and German at a later date.

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	The Paradox of Vertical Flight 3.67 avg rating — 750 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Lightspeed Magazine, October 2015 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maria Dahvana Headley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“But—but in falling, we fly, don’t we? We fly vertically. That’s the paradox of vertical flight. Falling is the only way we can fly.”
― Emil Ostrovski, The Paradox of Vertical Flight

tags: flying

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“...true friendship, the kind the whims of life cannot break, cannot stop or limit, true friendship of this sort, you will probably find only once, and then only if you’re lucky.”
― Emil Ostrovski, The Paradox of Vertical Flight

tags: friendship

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“Your-no-our free will gives us choices and because we're not perfect, it's not always clear which choice is the right one...So yes, we can be wrong. Yes the world's a messy place. But a world in which we always knew what was right and had no choice but to do it, that would be a world of puppets.”
― Emil Ostrovski, The Paradox of Vertical Flight

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Emil’s Quotes

“One day when I was praying, it suddenly occurred to me thatI was talking to myself.”
― Peter O' Toole

tags: atheism

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“But even friendship like our heroes'
Exist no more; for we've outgrown
All sentiments and deem men zeroes--
Except of course ourselves alone.
We all take on Napoleon's features,
And millions of our fellow creatures
Are nothing more to us than tools...
Since feelings are for freaks and fools.
Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions
And on the whole despised mankind,
Yet wasn't, like so many, blind;
And since each rule permits exceptions,
He did respect a noble few,
And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

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