Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] (listen); 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was an expatriate Russian and Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote...
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed