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The few times I said to myself anywhere: ‘Now that’s a nice spot for a permanent home, ’ I would immediately hear in my mind the thunder of an avalanche carrying away the hundreds of far places which I would destroy by the very act of settling in one particular nook of the earth.Vladimir Nabokov
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Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.Vladimir Nabokov
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A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the problem of educating the young. I remember how once, between terms, not at Cornell, a student brought a transistor set with him into the reading room. He managed to state that one, he was playing “classical” music; that two, he was doing it “softly”; and that three, “there were not many readers around in summer.” I was there, a one-man multitude. .Vladimir Nabokov