Quotes about Vladimir nabokov

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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.
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
I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. — Vladimir Nabokov
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
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
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
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
Do not be angry with the rain — it simply does not know how to fall upwards.