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“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“The beginners well-known propensity for obtruding upon his own privacy, by introducing himself, or a vicar, into his first novel, owes less to the attraction of a ready theme than to the relief of getting rid of oneself, before going on to better things.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she wouldinvariably, with icy precisionplump for the former.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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