Literature was not born the day when a boy crying wolf, wolf came runn…

Vladimir Nabokov
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Literature was not born the day when a boy crying wolf, wolf came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind him. ✨ Lectures on Literature Good Readers and Good Writers (1980)
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