Nabokov

Famous quotes containing the word nabokov:

“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers—and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)