"I have rewritten — often several times —……" — Vladimir Nabokov
"I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers."
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Vladimir Nabokov
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269 Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov has 269 quotes on this site.
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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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Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?
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My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”
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Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers.…
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