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Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.”

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Russian-born American novelist, best known for his novel 'Lolita'. Nabokov is renowned for his unique literary style and profound use of language and symbolism. more

“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

“Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.”

Hard Black Grass Insects Damp

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!”

Ifs Thinking Want Dies Sides Animal Half Blood Mouths Hips My Best Friend Furry Grover Grover Underwood

Book:The lightning thief

Source: The lightning thief

“You drool when you sleep.”

Sleep Annabeth Annabeth Chase Percy Jackson And The Olympians

Book:The lightning thief

Source: The lightning thief

“That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.”

Want Trying Heard Land

Book:The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers

Source: The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers

“If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.”

Ifs Looks Look At Yourself

Author:Bob Dylan

“Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.”

Life Is Lawyer Tenacious

Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“I've faced worse than a dressmaker who breaths fire.”

Fire Breaths

Book:Dragonskin Slippers

Source: Dragonskin Slippers

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

Source: The Life and Writings of ...

“Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.”

Mind Positive Thinking Rate Second Rate

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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