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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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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

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I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows. – Andy Warhol

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Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land. – Walter Knott

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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. Id go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor. – Al Pacino

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