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Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
Age: 77 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1977
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Chess Composer
Chess Player
Journalist
Lepidopterist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
St. Petersburg
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Vladimir Sirin
Vl. Sirin
Wladimir Nabokoff-Sirin
V. Sirin
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As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.
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Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
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Words without experience are meaningless.
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Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
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I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.
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It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
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Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?
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...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.
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I think it is all a matter of love.
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
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I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.
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Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
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It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?
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Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!
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Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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