Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.
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The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision, the better; the more elements he can grasp and hold in his mind at once, the better. The economic world is a misty region. The first explorers used unaided vision. Mathematics is the lantern by which what before was dimly visible now looms up in firm, bold outlines. The old phantasmagoria disappear. We see better. We also see further.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.
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I always try and take something from each job.
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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
