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Хорошие советы требуют выдержки: через год они становятся ещё лучше.

А вот интересно, в The Namesake это сознательный кусок Набокова, или только кажется (в Acknowledgments она в явном виде благодарит его за книгу Николай Гоголь):
Before leaving he asks to see the exact place in the emergency room his father was last alive. The bed number is looked up on a chart; a young man with his arm in a sling lies in it now, otherwise in good spirits, talking on the telephone. [The hero] glimpses the curtains that had partly girded his father when life left him, green and gray flowers with a section of white mesh at the top; metal hooks hang from the ceiling, traveling on a white U-shaped rail.
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