Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Everything is real on me.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
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At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.
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I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
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I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.
