“The distortion of a remembered image may not only enhance its beauty with an added refraction, but provide informative links with earlier or later patches of the past.”
More from Vladimir Nabokov
“Rowdies are never revolutionary, they are always reactionary. It is among the young that…”
“I have no purpose at all when composing my stuff except to compose it. I work hard, I work…”
“Learn to distinguish banality. Remember that mediocrity thrives on 'ideas.'”
“Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present.…”