A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. - Vladimir Nabokov

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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. - Tems quotes