JJ Vladimir Quotes

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

I don't think in any language. I think in images.

You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!

Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.

I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.

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.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.

My English is very bad.

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.

You have made a very good point: both the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I enjoy a fairly high level of trust among the citizens of our countries.

I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.

In Russia all people enjoy the equal rights, including homosexuals.

There is no need to distract the attention of the community from the essence of the subject substituting it with secondary questions dealing with the search of those who did it [hacker's attacks].

The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].

Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.

Radicals can be found in any environment.

It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations.