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Vladimir Nabokov has 271 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than…
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I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
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The tiny madman in his padded cell.
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix…
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring…
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between…
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.
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Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move…
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When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel.…
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The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous…
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Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).
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And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because…
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It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of…
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His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Vangripped with splayed hands the…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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