Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.
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I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.
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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.
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If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
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The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
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Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?
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Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.
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The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.
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I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.
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Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.
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Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.
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Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
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Every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.
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When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love.
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Her touch feels so cold. Her lips taste like wine. It’s your spell that takes its hold on me. I got one thing on my mind.
