Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
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What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.
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Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
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If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
