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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
Age: 77 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1977
Died: January 1
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St. Petersburg
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Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
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My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.
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My little cup brims with tiddles.
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Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
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We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.
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