• 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
  American writer and poet 1899-1977
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. novelist
2. mortals
3. surface
4. present

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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. by : Vladimir Nabokov

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