Famous quotes containing the word nabokov:
“No, I’m Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or something?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Between here and that old car outside there are twenty-five paces. Make them. Now.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)