Nabokov

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    Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies—every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)