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Vladimir Nabokov quote: "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

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kneel down, kneel down- kneel round her every one of you, and mark my words. I say she starved to death. I never knew how bad she was, till the fever came upon her, and then her bones were starting through the skin. There was neither fire nor candle; she died in the dark- in the dark. She couldn't even see her children's faces, though we heard her gasping out their names. I begged for her in the streets, and they sent me to prison. When I came back, she was dying; and all the blood in my... Charles Dickens
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