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Tongue Trip

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The tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Loathing Simplicity

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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Memory’s Strength in Love

In Comic Novel, Fiction, Literary Fiction
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The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it becomes.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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Time: The Perfect Author

In Comic Novel, Fiction, Literary Fiction
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Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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Unfinished Masterpiece

In Fiction, Literary
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pale Fire
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Crying: Beauty’s Refuge

In Comic Novel, Fiction, Literary Fiction
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
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