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Letter "V" » Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
«A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.»
«Caress the detail, the divine detail»
«Other men die; but I Am not another; therefore I'll not die»
«The tiny madman in his padded cell.»
«A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
cancel, canceled, canceling, cancels, drizzle, insurrection, insurrections, insurrection of, the insurrection, toothache, toothaches
«A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.»
«Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Myths
| Keywords:
application, credulous, cured, Greek, myths, private parts, woes
«There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.»
«Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - a broken man writing dull English.»
«Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Exploration,
Romance
| Keywords:
explorer, explorers, palpitating, pebbles, pit, sensation, separation, splendor, tasting, Terra, the pit, treading
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