Nabokov

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    Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    With a condescending grin he offered his hand, hardly bothering to sit up. I grasped it only because it provided me with the curious sensation of Narcissus fooling Nemesis by helping his image out of the brook.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)