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Book Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
- 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…
- 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…
- …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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous…
- The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym…
- Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
- 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:…
- I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
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