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Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.
Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.
Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
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- Vladimir Nabokov
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- Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1899 to 1977; Wikidata Q36591, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36591 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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