"A masterpiece of fiction is an original world……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader."
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Vladimir Nabokov
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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times…
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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…
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink…
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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…
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of…
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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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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
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