Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. - Vladimir Nabokov - Quotesmemo.com

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I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

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Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

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Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

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It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

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