Vladimir Nabokov

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PS to: "However, 'only the writing of fiction, the endless re-creation of my fluid self could keep me more or less sane.'(a great writer has only himself to copy?*)
[ ]* Who said that, Oscar Wilde or Nabokov? That's an instance of "autoplagiarism"..

JM: Both, in a way - and behold, Earnest is back!

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

"Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only its own self to copy."
Vladimir Nabokov, The Art of Fiction No. 40
Interviewed by Herbert Gold

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