Vladimir Nabokov quote: The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the ...

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

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