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Vladimir Nabokov
Knowing you'll have...
Knowing you'll have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of...
A writer should...
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Beauty plus pity...
Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
Source:...
Existence is a...
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
It is a...
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
Source: In
The cradle rocks...
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between...
Imagination, the supreme...
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we...
Here lies the...
Here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of...
Style and Structure...
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Source:...
A work of...
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual...
Discussion in class,...
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that...
Genius is an...
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Source: 'The Gift'
-- Vladimir Nabokov,...
You can always...
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Source: Lolita, Putnam...
A novelist is,...
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the...
Life is a...
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Like so many...
Like so many ageing college people, Pnin had long ceased to notice the existence of students on the...
I think like...
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Revelation can be...
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Satire is a...
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
Source: Strong Opinions, 6
-- Vladimir...
There are aphorisms...
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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