Nabokov

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    Humbert Humbert. What a thrillingly different name.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    Today one does not hear much about him.... The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    To minor authors is left the ornamentation of the commonplace: these do not bother about any reinventing of the world; they merely try to squeeze the best they can out of a given order of things, out of traditional patterns of fiction.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)