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Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.”

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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

“Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Looks Mean Book Enough Shows Happens Courses Reading Sin Holy Direct Ghost Landscape Guidance Dry Holy Ghost Being Wrong Surrogates Dry Up

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!”

May Fire Cold Mouths Strikes Scholar Lightning

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.”

People War Given Animal Harm Alcohol Cruelty Pollution Really Cool Famine Animal Cruelty Omen Biking Good Omens Cool People Lager

Author:Neil Gaiman

“We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.”

Different Form Approach Experience Quartets

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.”

Science Religion Force Religious Behinds Research Driving Strongest Cosmic Scientific Research Driving Force Religious Experience

Book:Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”

Ifs Sometimes Faces Felt Air Phones Heavy Breathing September Phone Calls Louisiana Obscene Secretive

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.”

Age Forever Middle Late Dancing Size Beer Too Late Lunch Cheese Perfume Belly Belts Middle Ages Shorts Cottages Hang Over

Author:Tom Robbins

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.”

Men Philosophy Nature Sleep Wonder Land Bird Tigers Hunts Cradle Cats Cradle Bokonon

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”

Thinking Trouble Recalls Harry Potter Harry Potter Movie Harry Potter Inspiring Inspirational Harry Potter Great Harry Potter Dumbledore Inspirational

Author:J. K. Rowling

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