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)

“That Dali is really Norman Rockwell’s twin brother kidnapped by gypsies in babyhood.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“The difference between human vision and the image perceived by the faceted eye of an insect may be compared with the difference between a half-tone block made with the very finest screen and the corresponding picture as represented by the very coarse screening used in common newspaper pictorial reproduction. The same comparison holds good between the way Gogol saw things and the way average readers and average writers see things.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)