"Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture."

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Source : Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.46, Vintage

Vladimir Nabokov

#Thinking Quotes #Crowds Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.”
“I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.”
“When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.”
“Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of that period. At the same time that Martin Luther King was talking about his dream, Malcolm X gave his most famous address in Detroit during that same period, "The Message To The Grass Roots," dismissing the notion of integration.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
“We want to tell our fans to love who you are. You're yourself, so you shouldn't change it.”
“If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?”
“He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.”
“As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.”

Source : "Characters in Fiction". Partisan Review, March/April 1961.

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