Nabokov

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“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and needs paper to wriggle out into the physical zone. Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle. I have rewritten—often several times—every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
—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)