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Some Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
- 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…
- Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
- Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its…
- Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow…
- ...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous…
- 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…
- My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest…
- I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of…
- Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.
- Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that…
- The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows…
- Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
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