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Vladimir Nabokov
American
April 22, 1899
Novelist
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Vladimir Nabokov
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More
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Nothing
The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Sense
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Nonsense
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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.
Vladimir Nabokov
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Teacher
Know
Something
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
Vladimir Nabokov
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More
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