Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine...
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