Nabokov Played

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“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)

“Listen here. I’ve never played it safe
in spite of what the critics say.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)