Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov - Literature

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“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)

“This is not “writing” at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure—pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.”
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