"I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible…" — Vladimir Nabokov
"I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past."
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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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More Drunk Quotes
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
— Isaac Asimov
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
— Edward Abbey
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just…
— Chester Bennington
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically…
— Jim Bishop
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
— Humphrey Bogart
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
— Ray Bradbury
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Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the…
— Joyce Brothers
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
— Charles Bukowski
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