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All Quotes by author - 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. "
Blush
Matter
Me
" A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. "
Fiction
Original
Masterpiece
" A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. "
More
Like
Home
" A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. "
Society
Only
Important
" A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. "
Imagination
Writer
Poet
" Caress the detail, the divine detail. "
Detail
Divine
Caress
" Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. "
Before
Complacency
Being
" Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. "
Know
Teacher
Class
" Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. "
Existence
Vast
Obscure
" Genius is an African who dreams up snow. "
Up
Snow
Imagination
" 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. "
Happy
Like
Love
" I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. "
Mind
Right
Anybody
" I confess, I do not believe in time. "
Believe
Time
Confess
" 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. "
Away
Past
Pine
" 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. "
Enjoy
Enjoy Life
Imagination
" I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. "
Think
You
Stronger
" I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. "
Child
Like
Speak
" It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. "
Hoot
Walk
Hallelujah
" 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. "
Only
Hard
More
" I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. "
Time
Reading
Move
" Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. "
Great
Death
Life Is A
" Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. "
Known
Two
Sweetest
" My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. "
Music
Simple
Oppression
" No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. "
Less
Pathetic
Created
" Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity. "
More
Vulgarity
Than
" Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. "
Once
Past
Associated
" Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. "
Rational
Poetry
Through
" Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. "
More
Revolution
Than
" Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. "
Parody
Lesson
Satire
" Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. "
Harm
People
Happy
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