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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Vladimir Nabokov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 22, 1899 - July 2, 1977

Topics

Life Enjoy Life Imagination Enjoy

Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.

Melina Matsoukas

Humor Day Sometimes Way Through Get

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

Michael Foreman

Life Age Fire Imagination Loved Now

Although it sounds cliche, the main thing I want to do is touch people with what I do. I want everything I do to be meaningful, and I want it to be about more than just myself, or the money.

Myself Money People Want Touch More

Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.

Education Change Powerful Will Tool

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

Robbie Williams

Ambition Famous Only Which

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Soul Comfort More Immortality Threat

Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't really have it on my to-do list when I write a book. It just evolves naturally during the process of immersing yourself in a subject.

Good Time Yourself Book Think You

There's a lot of learning that goes on based on the mistakes that we may make in practice, and our guys do a great job of trying to digest that information and be ready to go when we use it during the course of the game.

Learning Great Job Mistakes Practice

I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.

Best Golf Growing Try Defend See

Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.

Journalism Responsible Hungry Scandal

We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened.

Dexter Scott King

Experience Appreciate Better You Say

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

Chris Bohjalian

Love Time Yourself Book Think Brand

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