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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

~Vladimir Nabokov

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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

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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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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1899

Died: July 2nd, 1977

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