Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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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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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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I'm an outsider.
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I take really good care of myself. I work out a lot and I eat very well.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.
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Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
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When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.
