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The Original of Laura QUOTES

The Original of Laura QUOTES

1 " She was an extravagantly slender girl. Her ribs showed. The conspicuous knobs of her hipbones framed a hollowed abdomen, so flat as to belie the notion of "belly." Her exquisite bone structure immediately slipped into a novel - became in fact the secret structure of that novel, besides supporting a number of poems. "

― Vladimir Nabokov , The Original of Laura

2 " The cup-sized breasts of that twenty-four year old impatient beauty seemed a dozen years younger than she, with those pale squinty nipples and firm form. "

― Vladimir Nabokov , The Original of Laura

3 " Finally it gave up- as some day life will give up- bothering me. "

― Vladimir Nabokov , The Original of Laura

4 " You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind. Did they break her mold or what, pal? Or...or did it self-destruct? Still, Laura. The one and the only. Such a plain name for a unique cutie. But perhaps my acuity is not without its problems. I ruin everything: a stupid story to be tapped out on my tomb's stone. I ruined even Laura. And an original ruin is rare. Just ask the archaeologist, "Egypt, again?" Just ask me, "Laura, again?" and we'll both respond: "Yes, again and again. And again. "

― Vladimir Nabokov , The Original of Laura

5 " What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion? "

― Vladimir Nabokov , The Original of Laura

6 " It’s tempting, emptiness. "

― Vladimir Nabokov , The Original of Laura