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title: "3 Nabokov Didn Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-boyd/popper-and-nabokov-are-very-different-people-in-some-ways-and-i-m/)

[Brian Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-boyd/)

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> [Unlike Conrad or Nabokov, I didn't have circumstances which would have coerced me out of my native tongue altogether.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-g-sebald/unlike-conrad-or-nabokov-i-didn-t-have-circumstances-which-would-have/)

[W. G. Sebald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-g-sebald/)

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> [My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-offill/my-plan-was-to-never-get-married-i-was-going-to-be-an-art-monster-2/)

[Jenny Offill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-offill/)

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