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Characters Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
- No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
- 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…
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