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Great Saying By Great Authors Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and…
- His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Vangripped with splayed hands the brow of gravity,…
- It all ended with the circuslikewhump of a monstrous box on the ear with which I knocked down the traitress who rolled up in a…
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- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- There is something great and terrible about suicide. — Honore de Balzac
- It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be… — David Bailey
- You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it… — James A. Baldwin
- The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition… — Tony Benn
- No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. — Georges Bernanos
- One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong… — Robert Browning
- You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. — Charles Bukowski
- We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. — Anthony Burgess
- Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out… — Louisa May Alcott
- A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of… — Samuel Butler
- The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to… — Albert Camus