...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call,…

Vladimir Nabokov
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...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1979). Five novels
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for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, p.56, Vintage
while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). Nabokov's congeries
Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later wh … ▶
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2017). Lectures on Literature, p.3, … ▶
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). Pale Fire, p.63, Vintage

...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1979). Five novels

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