Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Language

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  • If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name.

  • I don't think in any language. I think in images.

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies
  • My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

    Mind  
    Source: www.slate.com
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