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Out Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at…
- I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood…
- 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…
- I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well,…
- He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even…
- in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge.…
- My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown…
- I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived…
- I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling
- In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.
- To the questions of the officiously meddling police Falter replied absently and tersely; but, when he finally grew tired of this pestering, he pointed out…
- With a condescending grin he offered his hand, hardly bothering to sit up. I grasped it only because it provided mewith the curious sensation of…
- 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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