More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Words without experience are meaningless.
I don't think in any language. I think in images.
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
