Nabokov

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    Turning one’s novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    Amidst the dust, and the falling things, and the flapping scenery, Cincinnatus made his way in that direction where, to judge by the voices, stood beings akin to him.
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    If, from the very first, the action of the play is absurd, it is because this is the way mad Waltz—before the play starts—imagines it is going to be....
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)