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Vladimir Nabokov

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DALLY SALAD i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I'm baking an apple pie tonight, and I dont care Mr.Carb.. Im eating it at 10pm with ice cream,. Tak...
NERISSA IRVING We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV My little cup brims with tiddles.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV ..."offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual"...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was ...
HERBERT PROCHNOW i can go on all day pretending to be happy an fooling the world and leave you wondiring when im gone...
AMBER FAITH HUN you really think im happy what just because i smile haha thats a joke is the devil good just because...
AMBER FAITH HUN Im going to Invest in a Turtle shell so i dont have to Watch MY Back. add ME to the Ninja Turtles Li...
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) Today my mouth is bigger than my heart. Sorry seems to be the hardest word. But, I'm sorry. I Love Y...
FEMALE IMAGINATION A lot of people ask for sequels, but what they really want is just to know the characters are happy ...
KRISTAN HIGGINS Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I ...
KRISTAN HIGGINS a thousand times over and over I'll spend my life telling you that I'm sorry...,but I'll never have ...
MEGAN A. MCCLAIN My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights ...
BRIE LARSON Manny:'Thats wat you do in a herd, you look out for each other.'
Sid:'I dont know about you guy...
ICE AGE Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but...
SAMUEL BECKETT dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo...
KURT COBAIN Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be ot...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, wou...
SARAH DESSEN "We all have a call in life... Mine is to be me. No matter how hard, no matter how inconvenient. No ...
NILSA FACCHI-BOLLIER I dont want the kind of love thats in movies, I want my own kind,
LYNDSEY ANN-MARIE SHEPARD Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR Okay.
JOHN GREEN What I think is so special about this honor is its not so much about the records and championships b...
MARGIE WRIGHT When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power ove...
RACHEL BILSON The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
JOSH BILLINGS You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehi...
MARILYN MANSON and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I loved you, I trusted you, but you lied to me, deceived my heart and poisoned my life.
Now I'm...
BLANK TEXT YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entit...
KAIDEN BLAKE You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is ex...
ARTHUR ASHE I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I reall...
SELENA GóMEZ Why is life a battlefield.? Is it really necessary to Bleed Sweat or Die to be heard.? Some say its ...
FEMALE IMAGINATION Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life.
JOHN DAVID ANDERSON You may cry out tears for misplacing your money, but you got to cry out blood if you have misplaced ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Im an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet caus...
JULIE GOLD I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon.
DEYTH BANGER Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN...
DEYTH BANGER If I met him just another day, I could have told how much I loved him, how much I cared for him, how...
NISHI DE SILVA An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able t...
WILLIAM FEATHER Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT Dont strew me with roses after Im dead. When Death claims the light of my brow,No flowers of life wi...
THOMAS F. HEALEY Hemingway changed prose; so did Salinger and Nabokov.
DAVID LIPSKY Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!
EDWARD J. STIEGLITZ I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television. Thank you so much, you have no idea what this mea...
KELLY CLARKSON have i gone mad?
im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
LEWIS CARROLL You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.
FRANK CRANE I feel sorry for the Shiites. They have been deceived. They don't realize Saddam will be released ag...
MOHAMMED ALI I'm sorry I left. I'm sorry. But I'm here now, so you can't die,” he said, his voice finally break...
V.E. SCHWAB How it is we have so much information, but know so little?
NOAM CHOMSKY We've felt for sometime that IM is next big wave. If you claim to offer a total messaging solution, ...
CHRIS CHRISTIANSEN Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.
FRANCESCA ZAPPIA sometimes the whole internet and world also seems the whole piece of mud, and it kills me... but i d...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. ...
DAVID NICHOLLS You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
FRANK CRANE It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't ...
VANILLA ICE Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy . . . But how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON No matter how busy you are, No matter in which position you are, No matter what situation life gives...
YASMEEN KHAN Cry as much as you want to, but make sure when you're finished, you never cry for the same reason ag...
WIZ KHALIFA I'm terrible at speaking when I cry. Thank you so much.
KELLY CLARKSON My dear friend, if you read the Bible so well but have not studied the subject of aeronautics, you c...
SUNDAY ADELAJA VLADIMIR: What do they say?
ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives.
VLADIMIR: To have lived...
SAMUEL BECKETT Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional ...
DONALD E. WESTLAKE Any time you start feeling sorry for yourself or you go into a rant about how bad life sucks, you im...
AMY HARMON You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
FRANK CRANE You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
DR. FRANK CRANE You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
FRANK CRANE You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough
FRANK CRANE Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but i...
ED GOLOD Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the...
JENNIFER NIVEN My doctor said I dont use the same side of the brain everyone else uses. lol.. Im insane laawwwwdd ....
NERISSA IRVING He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Life is about balance. Be kind, but don't let people abuse you. Trust, but don't be deceived. Be con...
WORDSTIONARY Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.
KELLY CLARKSON Thank you very much, Toronto! I have fucking laryngitis so I'm sorry if I don't hit all the notes.
GARY LIGHTBODY How much you achieve in Life is not as important as how much you enjoy each moment of Life.
RVM i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g...
DALLY SALAD I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? One guy even said ...
EMMA BUNTON Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON aliens are living on earth for along time,for those who think im talking about another race youre wr...
RAJA The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enoug...
FRANK CRANE Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, d...
ASHWIN SANGHI Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of ...
STEPHENIE MEYER So there you have it--my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS I can't remember how to cry.
SHERMAN ALEXIE Why did Jesus die for you? How do you sin? You dont? OK yours is lying.
JODEL AREVALO life is to short dont mess it up
VITA NEDERLOE

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VLADIMIR NABOKOV It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The color of one's creed, neckties, eyes, thoughts, manners, speech, is sure to meet somewhere in ti...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV And I still have other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain. ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anythin...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remain...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a si...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a s...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sen...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bl...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subd...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV My little cup brims with tiddles.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light o...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal v...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
VLADIMIR NABOKOV From far below mounted the clink and tinkle of distant masonry work, and a sudden train passed betwe...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Lolita, luz de mi vida, fuego de mis entrañas. Pecado mío, alma mía. Lo-li-ta: la punta de la len...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon wh...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Thus, neither of us is alive when the reader opens this book. But while the blood still throbs throu...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable na...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze
I cannot get out, said the starling
VLADIMIR NABOKOV In a nervous and slender-leaved mimosa grove at the back of their villa we found a perch on the ruin...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I would see her floating away from me, celestial and solitary, in an ethereal chairlift, up and up, ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I want pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn details, a sunburst above a receding road with ...
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