Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

  

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• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

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• I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.

  

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• I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

  

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• When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

  

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• Yoga is a life-saver.

  

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• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

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• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

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• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

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• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

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• Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.

  

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• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

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• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  

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• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

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• As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.

  

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• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

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• I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.

  

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• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

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• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

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• Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.

  

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• Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.

  

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• In den finsteren ZeitenWird da auch gesungen werden?Da wird auch gesungen werden.Von den finsteren Zeiten.

  

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• Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Dark
  • Memories
  • Infinite