#ch

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#did #founders #george #i #iii

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#enjoy #enjoy life #imagination #immature #immortal

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cannot #conceive #go #his #how

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fit #likely #masterpiece #original #reader

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#contain #first #kinetic #matter #me

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#child #distinguished #genius #i #i think

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#applied #got #harvard #i #repertory

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#chances #characters #gifted #greater #mind

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cheated #ends #feel #happy #harm