17 Quotations by Vladimir Nabokov
- 1. A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze o ...
- 2. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
- 3. I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
- 4. Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to en ...
- 5. It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
- 6. Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily ap ...
- 7. Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
- 8. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- 9. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- 10. Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
- 11. The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o ...
- 12. The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in in ...
- 13. The tiny madman in his padded cell.
- 14. There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
- 15. Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, f ...
- 16. Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
- 17. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov Quotes by Power Quotations
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