Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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There's this sort of model that exists in Nashville that we think we have to abide by: You put out a record, and in two years you have to put out another one and have three or four singles. There are all these rules that I've just sort of thrown out the window.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
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Now pray tell me what Time is? ...Time (to speak abstractedly) is the continuance of any Thing in its own Being. But some Things continue longer in their Beings than others... Time absolutely... is Quantity, as admitting in some Manner the chief Affections of Quantity: Equality, Inequality, and Proportion...
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We leave it to the people's discernment on whether their attacks on the president are in keeping with their role as church leaders.
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When government grows, it breaks the family.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.
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And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.
