Nabokov

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    I looked up from the letter and was about to—There was no Lo to behold.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

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

    After a month or so I get used to the book’s final stage, to its having been weaned from my brain. I now regard it with a kind of amused tenderness as a man regards not his son, but the young wife of his son.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)