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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Vladimir Nabokov quotes

American Novelist, Writer April 22, 1899 – July 2, 1977

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I see the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks of perception are formed, affording memory and a slippery hold. Vladimir Nabokov
If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be "To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved..."
By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Speak, Memory is strictly autobiographic. There is nothing..."
Speak, Memory is strictly autobiographic. There is nothing autobiographic in Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange..."
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. Vladimir Nabokov
This, to use an American term in which discovery, retribution, torture, death, eternity appear in the shape of a singularly repulsive nutshell, was it. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the..."
Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create..."
anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past Vladimir Nabokov
Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars. Vladimir Nabokov
And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . . Vladimir Nabokov
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny. Vladimir Nabokov
It is not the artistic aptitudes that are secondary sexual characters as some shams and shamans have said; it is the other way around: sex is but the ancilla of art. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "There is no science without fancy and no art without fact."
There is no science without fancy and no art without fact. Vladimir Nabokov
If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger. Vladimir Nabokov
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man's mind had been born... Vladimir Nabokov

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