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Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. – Vladimir Nabokov

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