Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Vladimir Nabokov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If we continue to print new paychecks at the rate we've been adding them, that mitigates a lot of the damage of higher gasoline prices.

Jerry A. Webman

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Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

John Fogerty

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People will always respond to high-class drama.

Maxine Peake

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I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Robert Sheckley

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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Robert M. Hutchins

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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

Jean-Paul Sartre

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As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. Essentially, you're already in a soundscape that's very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments.

Matt Bellamy

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I have the life of seven cats.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.

Michele Bachmann

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I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose - I think everyone should carry it.

Liz Goldwyn

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There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

Julia Quinn

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Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

Dolph Lundgren

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