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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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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

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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats. ↗

— Jerry Nachman

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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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