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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

~Vladimir Nabokov

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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

~Vladimir Nabokov

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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

~Vladimir Nabokov

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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

~Vladimir Nabokov

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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

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No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

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I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1899

Died: July 2nd, 1977

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