Ivan Vladislavic Professions : Short story writer Born : 1957 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Ivan Vladislavic We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten. Ivan Vladislavic ice perception sea Similar Authors Arthur Shearly Cripps short-story-writer Deborah Eisenberg short-story-writer Doris Betts short-story-writer Diriye Osman short-story-writer Deb Olin Unferth short-story-writer H. Russell Wakefield short-story-writer All Authors