Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
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Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
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You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
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The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.
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I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.
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I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
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Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?
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No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
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Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
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When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
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As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.
