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After Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- 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…
- Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now…
- Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We…
- - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?…
- There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being:…
- Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very…
- Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.
- As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the…
- Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my…
- He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night…
- After the dreadful frustrationsFreudians have experienced with my other books, I am sure they will refrain from inflicting upon Waltz a sublimation of the push-button…
More After Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood