Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist. His first nine novels were in Russian, and he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 April 1899
CitySaint Petersburg, Russia
CountryUnited States of America
stars angel mind
Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.
desire world defiance
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.
art deceitful complexes
Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.
eye color photograph
All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
rust stardust
And the rest is rust and stardust.