I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit … - Vladimir Nabokov

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And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Vladimir Nabokov

I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.

Acumen, Attention, Special, Unless

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

Defiance, Desire, Desires, World, Worlds

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.

Angel, Mind, Shooting, Smoke, Stars

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

Irrational, Mysteries, Mystery, Rational, Reason

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

Advantage, Disadvantage, Disadvantages, Took

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

Love, Sight, Valentines Day

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Richard Ford

A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.

Believe, Book, Different, Experienced, Readers, Spiritually

Thomas Paine

Judging, Man, Men, Rotten, Wife

Josh Groban

I like my hair long because I have really big ears.

Ears, Hair, Long

Garth Nix

It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does! - Grim Tuesday

Grim, Hand, Hands, Speak, Taken, Tuesday

Nina Bawden

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

Boring, Children, Confused, Place, See, Thinking