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Call Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of…
- My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of…
- Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.
- I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.
- Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.
- ...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
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