“The honester the man the worse luck.”
John Ray“Beauty is power a smile is its sword. ”
John Ray“Good words cool more than cold water.”
John Ray“Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.”
John Ray“Many without punishment none without sin.”
John Ray“The honester the man the worse luck.”
John Ray“There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction, and, despite John Ray's assertion, Lolita has no moral in tow. For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not many such books. All the rest is either topical trash or what some call the Literature of Ideas, which very often is topical trash coming in huge blocks of plaster that are carefully transmitted from age to age until somebody comes along with a hammer and takes a good crack at Balzac, at Gorki, at Mann.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita