Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

  

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• I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.

  

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• In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

  

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• I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  

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• People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

  

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• The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

  

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• My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

  

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• These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.

  

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• When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

  

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• We must promote national reconciliation and healing, not only between the Fijians and Indo-Fijians, but also between the Fijians themselves.

  

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• The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

  

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• It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.

  

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• The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

  

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• It’s rare, he says, that we “encounter a person who asserts vehemently that the mere thought of reading a novel, or looking at a picture, or seeing a movie causes him insufferable torment,” but “sensible, educated people” often say “with a remarkable blend of defiance and pride” that math is “pure torture” or a “nightmare” that “turns them off.”

  

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• No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.

  

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• Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Attractive
  • Torture
  • Exasperation