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Vladimir Nabokov

  • A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • Caress the detail, the divine detail.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • 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.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • I confess, I do not believe in time.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • 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.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
    Vladimir Nabokov
  • 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.
    Vladimir Nabokov

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