Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American · 1899–1977
Novelist and lepidopterist who wrote masterpieces in both Russian and English. His ornate prose, ludic structures, and penetrating intelligence made him one of the supreme stylists of the twentieth century.
Wikipedia ↗“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
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“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
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“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
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“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”
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“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying wolf, wolf came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels: literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind him.”
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