A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
- Vladimir Nabokov