Nabokov

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    If I were not perfectly sure of my power to write and of my marvelous ability to express ideas with the utmost grace and vividness.... So, more or less, I had thought of beginning my tale.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)