Quotes by Nabokov, Vladimir

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of >>

Genius is an African who dreams up snow. >>

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, sho >>

Quotations about Girls

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the co >>

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, t >>

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when the >>

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

Nabokov, Vladimir