I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great surprise.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” · From the poem that opens the novel; the next line says he does not see why death should not be an even greater one.

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.

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“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”

“Life is a great surprise.”

“The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”

“Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.”

“For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking.”

“An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”