Quotes about Vladimir

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Don't touch me — I'll die if you touch me.
The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale — and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.
I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anythi — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the — Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. — Vladimir Nabokov
I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. — Vladimir Nabokov
Something in me didnt believe that. I read it again, trying to make sense of the old-fashioned language. Mason watched m — Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate — and it is not impossible that the poet in New Wye and the thug in New York awoke that morning at the same crushed beat of their Timekeeper's stopwatch.
I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acqui — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talki — C.P. Snow, Variety of Men
People says it gets easier. People are stupid."-Vlad — Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays
For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
At the end of the day,” he continued, “although many believe in fate, it’s those who go through life with independent th — Adele Rose
One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that—well, not tomorrow, of course, an — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place in it, t — Jeffrey Tayler
There are decades where nothing happens — and there are weeks where decades happen.
The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin’s critics have an uncanny h — Luke Harding, A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
The Russian-born novelist's writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil — Mason Currey, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
My darling, what a cat they have! Something perfectly stupendous. Siamese, in colour dark beige, or taupe, with chocolat — Vladimir Nabokov
Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you are reading this. — Vladimir Nabokov