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" No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. "
Vladimir Nabokov
Less
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Created
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" A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. "
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" I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. "
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" The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. "
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" You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. "
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" Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. "
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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. "
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" To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. "
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" I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. "
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" Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. "
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" I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. "
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" All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. "
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" There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. "
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" It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. "
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" I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. "
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" Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. "
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" The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. "
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" 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. "
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