Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
There Is Also A Keen Pleasure (and After All, What Else Should The Pursuit Of Science Produce?) In Meeting The Riddle Of The Initial Blossoming Of Man's Mind By Postulating A Voluptuous Pause In The Growth Of The Rest Of Nature, A Lolling And Loafing Which Allowed First Of All The Formation Of Homo Poeticus
Without Which Sapiens Could Not Have Been Evolved. "Struggle For Life" Indeed! The Curse Of Battle And Toil Leads Man Back To The Boar, To The Grunting Beast's Crazy Obsession With The Search For Food. You And I Have Frequently Remarked Upon That Maniacal Glint In A Housewife's Scheming Eye As It Roves Over Food In A Grocery Or About The Morgue Of A Butcher's Shop. Toilers Of The World, Disband! Old Books Are Wrong. The World Was Made On A Sunday.
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