Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. - Vladimir Nabokov

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I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

Vladimir Nabokov

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

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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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