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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic’s bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
The more gifted and talkative one’s characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Turning one’s novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don’t really exist if you don’t (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)
And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine (Vladimir Nabokov Quotes)