Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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Winning is obviously the biggest thing. Because if you don't win, nothing really matters. You can have all the money in the world, and they can still call you a loser.
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The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
