Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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

Vladimir Nabokov

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• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

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• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

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• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

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• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

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• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  

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• National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

  

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• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

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• Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.

  

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• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

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• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

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• Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!

  

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• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

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• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

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• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

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• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

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• It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

  

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• Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.

  

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• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  

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• The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa.

  

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• With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.

  

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• Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.

  

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• A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

  

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

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • People
  • Hate
  • Cheated