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First Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
- ...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an…
- I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or…
- It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
- 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…
- I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.
- She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with…
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