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

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


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