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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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

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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. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author,..."
Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist. Vladimir Nabokov
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us. Vladimir Nabokov
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and..."
Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose. Vladimir Nabokov
For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. Vladimir Nabokov
He suggested I play golf, but finally agreed to give me something that, he said, "would really work"; and going to a cabinet, he produced a vial of violet-blue capsules banded with dark purple at one end, which, he said, had just been placed on the market and were intended not for neurotics whom a draft of water could calm if properly administered, but only for great sleepless artists who had to die for a few hours in order to live for centuries. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a..."
...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book.... Vladimir Nabokov
My knowledge of Mr. Forster’s works is limited to one novel which I dislike; and anyway it was not he who fathered that trite little whimsy about characters getting out of hand; it is as old as the quills, although of course one sympathizes with his people if they try to wriggle out of that trip to India or whereever he takes them. My characters are galley slaves. Vladimir Nabokov
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is..."
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not..."
what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art Vladimir Nabokov

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