Vladimir Nabokov Quotes About Mediocrity

Quotes about: Mediocrity

• There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Teacher, School, Squares

• Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Ambitious, Rough Drafts

• There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Baths, Groups, Mediocrity

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1955-1962”, Library of America

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