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Rolled Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that…
- 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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