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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

~Vladimir Nabokov

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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

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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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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

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Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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I confess, I do not believe in time.

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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1899

Died: July 2nd, 1977

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