"Do you really think that Chekhov is Chekhov……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"Do you really think that Chekhov is Chekhov because he wrote about social phenomena, readjustments of a new industrial middle class, kulaks and rising serfs (which sounds like the seas)? I thought he wrote of the kinds of things that gentleKing Lear proposed to discussin prison with his daughter."
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Vladimir Nabokov
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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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The tiny madman in his padded cell.
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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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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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.
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