And yet I shall try again: "they are murdering me! "--all right, all together once more: "they are murdering me! " and again: "murdering".. I want to write this in such a way that you will cover your ears, your membranaceous, simian ears that you hide under strands of beautiful feminine hair--but I know them, I see them, I pinch them, the cold little things, I worry them with my fingers to somehow warm them, bring them to life, render them human, force them to hear me. Vladimir Nabokov
There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
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Charlaine Harris
I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
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Astrid Artistikem Cruz
Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?
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Sylvia Plath
He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.
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Will Cuppy
The Jews are cowering along the wall, eyes wide, palms up, fingers splayed -- a collective posture of submission. Even now, with everything that has happened, with the city in ruins and the dead as thick upon the streets as busted glass, they don't want...
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Miles Watson
More Quotes By Vladimir Nabokov
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes
I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her —after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred— I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness...
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece
