Nabokov

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“Mr. Goodman’s large soft pinkish face was, and is, remarkably like a cow’s udder.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“The locomotive, working rapidly with its elbows, hurried through a pine forest, then—with relief—among fields.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)