Quotation by Vladimir Nabokov

At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. The New York Times, interview (1971).

On being asked how far his youthful expectations had been fulfilled.
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