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Let's influence ourselves, let's influence others. — Vladimir Raykov

Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are. — Vladimir Nabokov

The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969] — Vladimir Nabokov

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we go?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's go.

They do not move. — Samuel Beckett

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

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. — Vladimir Putin

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is not a crime. — Vladimir Putin

The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is. — Vladimir Nabokov

In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony. — Vladimir Putin

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose. — Vladimir Nabokov

When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play. — Vladimir Kramnik

Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us, — Vladimir Putin

He began with the day's copy of The New York Times. His lips moving like wrestling worms, he read about all kinds of things. Hrushchov — Vladimir Nabokov

I am ready to give you all of my blood, if I had to - it's hard to explain - sounds flat - but that's how it is. — Vladimir Nabokov

Then there's amortization,
the deadliest of all;
amortization
of the heart and soul. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell — Strobe Talbott

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens. — Vladimir Putin

I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president. — Vladimir Putin

[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination. — Vladimir Nabokov

I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth. — Vladimir Nabokov

It's better not to argue with women, — Vladimir Putin

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it. — Vladimir Lenin

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them. — Vladimir Nabokov

Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped. — Vladimir Voinovich

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Man's life as commentary to abstruse [940] Unfinished poem. Note for further use. Dressing — Vladimir Nabokov

The determinate scheme by stripping the sunrise of it's surprise would erase all sunrays. — Vladimir Nabokov

But I,
from poetry's skies,
plunge into communism,
because
without it
I feel no love. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions. — Vladimir Nabokov

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake. — Vladimir Putin

Somehow, too, I remembered Chichikov's round of weird visits in Gogol's Dead Souls. — Vladimir Nabokov

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game. — Vladimir Kramnik

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France. — Garry Kasparov

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it. — Vladimir Lenin

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes - and by a stanza a city is blown to bits. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor. — Vladimir Nabokov

And the most poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from the chorus. — Vladimir Nabokov

The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me. — Vladimir Putin

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence. — Vladimir Putin

The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will. — Vladimir Putin

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. — Vladimir Nabokov

Death often is the point of life's joke. — Vladimir Nabokov

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains. — Vladimir Putin

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. — Vladimir Nabokov

Federal Switzerlandization would be a huge step backwards for Germany. Two — Vladimir Lenin

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform. — Vladimir Guerrero

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation. — Vladimir Putin

The piano is an orchestra with 88 ... things, you know — Vladimir Horowitz

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection. — Vladimir Nabokov

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort. — Vladimir Nabokov

Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy. — Vladimir Nabokov

ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this.
VLADIMIR: That's what you think. — Samuel Beckett

I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being - about NATO being on his borders. He's always had that. — Charlie Rose

Things are currently the other way around in [Vladimir] Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever. — Garry Kasparov

such as first-grader Vladimir's sporting a wristwatch, — Masha Gessen

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final. — Vladimir Putin

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. — Vladimir Putin

VLADIMIR: Well? What do we do?
ESTRAGON: Don't let's do anything. It's safer. — Samuel Beckett

How can I demonstrate [ ... ] that I have glimpsed somebody's future recollection? — Vladimir Nabokov

Only experts, for experts, should probe a mind's misery. — Vladimir Nabokov

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music. — Vladimir Ashkenazy

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. — Vladimir Nabokov

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness. — Vladimir Nabokov

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God . — Vladimir Putin

For me the game of love is much like hunting a man on foot with a knife. It's not over until the blade is clean. — Vladimir Putin

My name is Dimitri Belikov. I've come to take you back to St. Vladimir's Academy, Princess. — Richelle Mead

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own. — Vladimir Nabokov

Oh, Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe's and Bea Dante's, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties? — Vladimir Nabokov

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad? — Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community. — Rand Paul

We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Sure, there's Ebola and Vladimir Putin and Islamic State terrorism. — Anonymous

It's exactly my sense of existing - a fragment, a wisp of color. — Vladimir Nabokov

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it. — Vladimir Putin

To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

The one who kills is always his victim's inferior. — Vladimir Nabokov

The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin's critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead. — Luke Harding

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson. — Vladimir Lenin

If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that. — Vladimir Putin

Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality - the deception was bearable. — Vladimir Nabokov

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging. — Vladimir Guerrero

If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country. — Vladimir Putin

U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman. — Vladimir Putin

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool. — Vladimir Putin

Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year plan. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

Donald Trump is not qualified to be president because he's not qualified to deal with Vladimir Putin. — Jeb Bush

It is fun to be present at the coming true of a dream, even if it is not one's own. — Vladimir Nabokov

... with somebody's lost pair of sun-glasses for only witness. — Vladimir Nabokov

When I hear a critic speaking of an author's sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool — Vladimir Nabokov

One is always at home in one's past... — Vladimir Nabokov

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. — Vladimir Putin

You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it. — Vladimir Kamarisky

Both were diverted by life's young fumblings,
both saddened by the wisdom of time — Vladimir Nabokov

pencil the exact middle of the head's height. Place a horizontal line there; this should be located below the eyebrows' line. — Vladimir London

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. — Vladimir Putin

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart. — Vladimir Nabokov

It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Oh," said Haze, "poor me should know, I went through that when I was a kid: boys twisting one's hair, hurting one's breasts, flipping one's skirt. — Vladimir Nabokov