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Nabokov sobre Conrad: «I cannot abide Conrad’s souvenir shop style and bottled ships and shell necklaces of romanticist cliches.» Nabokov sobre Fiódor Dostoiévski: «Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.» Nabokov sobre Hemingway: «As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.»