Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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.
D. B. Weiss
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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.
Bat for Lashes
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Edith Stein
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson
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Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
Bob Lilly
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Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.
Padgett Powell
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You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
Paul Cleave
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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
Vladimir Nabokov
