Nabokov

Famous quotes containing the word nabokov:

“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and needs paper to wriggle out into the physical zone. Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle. I have rewritten—often several times—every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)